| 单词 |
prefixt |
| 释义 |
prefixed, † prefixt, ppl. a.|priː-, prɪˈfɪkst|
[f. as prefix v. + -ed1.]
1. Fixed, appointed, or settled beforehand.
1533Bellenden Livy v. viii. (S.T.S.) II. 172 He admonist his army to be reddy at ane prefixt day. 1652Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Hist. Relat. 5 A Council composed of a certain prefixt number of persons. 1733Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. x. 99 There is no prefix'd Time for planting Turneps. 1794Paley Evid. iii. iv. §2 (1817) 312 Upon the strength of some prefixed persuasion. 1896Daily News 1 Dec. 8/7 He proceeds..according to a prefixed plan.
2. Fixed or placed before something else.
1845Proc. Philol. Soc. II. 172 In support of the assumed connection between the termination or prefixed sign of the genitive case and the relative. 1875Whitney Life Lang. xii. 244 Using..suffixed instead of prefixed particles. 1898Daily News 5 Mar. 6/2 Byron's signature..appears..sometimes as ‘Noel Byron’, or ‘N. B.’, the prefixed name being assumed by him for reasons here noted.
3. Anat. Of a nerve: connected to the spinal cord relatively cranially. Cf. postfixed ppl. a. 2.
1892, etc. [see postfixed ppl. a. 2].
Hence preˈfixedly, † preˈfixtly adv. (rare), in a way fixed or determined beforehand.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 561 Sith the holy-man Fore-tels prefixtly What and Where and When. a1656Ussher Ann. (1658) 429 The space of a few dayes, and those prefixedly numbred, being granted. |
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