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Definition of Fixive

1. acting to fix a photographic image [adj]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixive

fixed up fixed virus fixer fixer-upper fixers fixes fixgig fixing fixing fixings

fixing agent fixing eye fixit fixities fixity fixive (current term) fixt fixture fixtures fixure

fixures fix up fiz fizgig fizgigs fizz fizzed fizzen fizzens fizzer

Literary usage of Fixive

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1. Biographia Literaria, Or, Biographical Sketches of My Literary Life and Opinions by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1847)
"But for the same reason, when it acts on a Solid (= rectius, Rigid) it exerts the same fixive power by causing a retraction of each particle in upon itself, ..."

2. Nordische Reisen und Forschungen by Matthias Alexander Castrén, Anton Schiefner (1857)
"... 188 in der Umgangssprache der Mongolen gebräuchlich sind. Die suf- fixive Form, welche dem mong. dagan (degen) entspricht, lautet da, dê, dô, dô. ..."

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