Word Meanings - DEFIX - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.

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• DEFIX
  To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• PRINCELY
  1. Of or relating to a prince; regal; royal; of highest rank or authority; as, princely birth, character, fortune, etc. 2. Suitable for, or becoming to, a prince; grand; august; munificent; magnificent; as, princely virtues; a princely fortune.
• ESTABLISHMENTARIAN
  One who regards the Church primarily as an establishment formed by the State, and overlooks its intrinsic spiritual character. Shipley.
• ESTABLISH
  L. stabilire, fr. stabilis firm, steady, stable. See Stable, a., - 1. To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm. So were the churches established in the faith.
• ESTABLISHED SUIT
  A plain suit in which a player could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.
• EXTREME
  Extended or contracted as much as possible; -- said of intervals; as, an extreme sharp second; an extreme flat forth. Extreme and mean ratio , the relation of a line and its segments when the line is so divided that the whole is to the greater
• FASTENING
  Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
• ESTABLISHER
  One who establishes.
• PROVINCE
  A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy. Wyclif . Milton. 2. A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire
• ESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act of establishing; a ratifying or ordaining; settlement; confirmation. 2. The state of being established, founded, and the like; fixed state. 3. That which is established; as: A form of government, civil or ecclesiastical; especially,
• EXTREMELY
  In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• FASTEN
  Etym: 1. To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window. 2. To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to
• PREESTABLISH
  To establish beforehand.
• DISESTABLISHMENT
  1. The act or process of unsettling or breaking up that which has been established; specifically, the withdrawal of the support of the state from an established church; as, the disestablishment and disendowment of the Irish Church by
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
• COPPER-FASTENED
  Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
• REFASTEN
  To fasten again.
• REESTABLISHER
  One who establishes again.
• REESTABLISH
  To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reëstablish a covenant; to reëstablish health.
• PREESTABLISHMENT
  Settlement beforehand.
• REESTABLISHMENT
  The act reëstablishing; the state of being reëstablished. Addison.
• DISESTABLISH
  To unsettle; to break up ; to deprive, as a church, of its connection with the state. M. Arnold.