also 7 affixe. [a. Fr. affixe adj. and sb., ad. L. affīx-us fastened to, pa. pple. of affīg-ĕre: see prec.]
1. That which is joined or appended; an appendage, addition.
1642. Jer. Taylor, Episcop. (1647), 341. The ambitious seeking of a temporall principality as … an affixe of the Apostolate.
c. 1854. Stanley, Sinai & Pal., xi. (1858), 129. Designated like the various ranges of Maritime, Graian, Pennine and Julian Alps, by some affix or epithet.
1864. Spectator, No. 1875, 642. Mr. Gladstone’s affix to his speech on the suffrage which he calls a preface.
2. esp. in Gram. (See quot. 1865.)
1612. Brerewood, Lang. & Relig., ix. 76. Framing it somewhat to their own country fashion, in notation of points, affixes, conjugations.
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., s.v., The oriental languages … differ chiefly from each other as to affixes and suffixes.
1865. Haldeman, Affixes to English Words, § 65. Affixes are additions to roots, stems, and words, serving to modify their meaning and use. They are of two kinds, prefixes, those at the beginning, and suffixes, those at the end of the word-bases to which they are affixed. Several affixes occur in long words like in-com-pre-hen-s-ib-il-it-y which has three prefixes and five suffixes. The tern interfix is hardly necessary for ad in anim-ad-vert, or t inserted as a fulcrum between two vowels as ego-t-ism.
† 3. A public notice posted up. (Cf. Fr. affiche.) Obs.
1647. R. Stapylton, Juvenal, 48. An affix or bill of the goods being posted for the buyers to read.
