Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of prefixing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of prefixing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun archaic The act of
prefixing .
Etymologies
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Compare Old French prefixion.
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Examples
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I rather suspect that it is from the _copy_ and not the _exhibited_ portrait, and in this dilemma would recommend a suspension, if not an abandonment, of the _prefixion_ to the volumes which you purpose inflicting upon the public.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815
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Grace, or other Prefidents of the faid Courtes, for the due exercife and expedicion of caufes there depending; as it was uf%d there heretofore, till the obteigning of the faid Statute, without prefixion of "any precife nombre, which for no caufe maye be exceded.
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