fixure Obs. or arch.
(ˈfɪksjʊə(r))
[ad. late L. fixūra, f. fīgĕre to fix: cf. fixture.]
Fixed condition, position, or attitude; fixedness, stability.
| 1603 Drayton Bar. Wars. i. xxxiii, This dreadfull Commet..Whose glorious fixure in so faire a sky Strikes the beholder with a chilly feare. 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 101 Rend..The vnity..of States Quite from their fixure [Ff. 3 and 4 fixture]. 1611 ― Wint. T. v. iii. 67 The fixure of her Eye ha's motion in't. 1648 W. Montagu Devout Ess. i. vi. §3. 62 The unfaithfulnesse of all materiall goods, in point of duration and fixure. 1680 Hon. Cavalier 7 Those Wandring Stars who have no Fixure from Heaven. 1753 Gray's-Inn Jrnl. (1756) II. No. 53 The Fixure of her Eyes, and Feebleness of her whole Person. 1817 Coleridge Lay Sermon in Ch. & St. (1839) 404 The very habit and fixures..that had been impressed on their frames by the former..winters. |