(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:57:16

De*fix" (?), v. t. [L. defixus, p. p. of defigere to fix; de- + figere to fix.]

To fix; to fasten; to establish.

[Obs.] "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province."

Hakluyt.

 

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