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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[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.

Verb.

To fix; to fasten.

defix ‎(third-person singular simple present defixes, present participle defixing, simple past and past participle defixed)

(obsolete) To fix or fasten; to establish.
To defix their princely seat […] in that extreme province. — Hakluyt.