Word Meanings - FIXEDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.
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- STABLENESS
The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability. - STABLEBOY; STABLEMAN
A boy or man who attends in a stable; a groom; a hostler. - FIXTURE
Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person - CONSTANTIA
A superior wine, white and red, from Constantia, in Cape Colony. - FIXING
Arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; accompaniments. (more info) 1. The act or process of making fixed. 2. That which is fixed; a fixture. 3. pl. - FIX
Fixed; solidified. Chaucer. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - FIXURE
Fixed position; stable condition; firmness. Shak. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - FIXEDLY
In a fixed, stable, or constant manner. - STABLE STAND
The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing - CONSTANT
Remaining unchanged or invariable, as a quantity, forc, law, etc. 4. Consistent; logical. Shak. Syn. -- Fixed; steadfast; unchanging; permanent; unalterable; immutable; perpetual; continual; resolute; firm; unshaken; determined. -- Constant, - FIXATION
1. The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed. An unalterable fixation of resolution. Killingbeck. To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper place or fixation. Sir W. Raleigh. Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of - FIXABLE
Capable of being fixed. - FIXIDITY
Fixedness. Boyle. - FIXATIVE
That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - FIXITY
1. Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed. 2. Coherence of parts. Sir I. Newton. - FIXEDNESS
1. The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness. 2. The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - POSTABLE
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu. - INTESTABLE
Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone. - REFIX
To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller. - CONSTABLESS
The wife of a constable. - AFFIX
figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to - DEFIX
To fix; to fasten; to establish. "To defix their princely seat . . . in that extreme province." Hakluyt. - AFFIXION
Affixture. T. Adams. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - CONTESTABLE
Capable of being contested; debatable. - THERMOSTABLE
Capable of being heated to or somewhat above 55º C. without loss of special properties; -- said of immune substances, etc. - INTASTABLE
Incapable of being tasted; tasteless; unsavory. Grew. - CONFIXURE
Act of fastening. - PREFIX
prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle - SUFFIX
A subscript mark, number, or letter. See Subscript, a. (more info) 1. A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix. - UNCONTESTABLE
Incontestable.