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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Prefix  \Pre*fix"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Prefixed};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Prefixing}.]  [L.  praefixus  p.  p.  of  praefigere  to  fix  or 
  fasten  before  prae  before  +  figere  to  fix:  cf  F.  pr['e]fix 
  fixed  beforehand,  determined,  pr['e]fixer  to  prefix.  See 
  Fix.] 
  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  or  establish 
  antecedently.  [Obs.]  ``  Prefixed  bounds.  ''  --Locke. 
 
  And  now  he  hath  to  her  prefixt  a  day  --Spenser. 




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