Definition of Fixities

1. Noun. (plural of fixity) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fixities

1. fixity [n] - See also: fixity

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixities

fixeth
fixgig
fixidity
fixie
fixies
fixigena
fixigenae
fixin'
fixing
fixing agent
fixing eye
fixing up
fixings
fixism
fixit
fixities (current term)
fixity
fixive
fixly
fixpoint
fixpoints
fixt
fixture
fixtured
fixtureless
fixtures
fixturing
fixure
fixures
fiz

Literary usage of Fixities

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1844)
""Fancy, on the contrary, has no other counters to play with, but fixities and definites. The Fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from ..."

2. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, Henry Jackson (1886)
"To this question I reply that it is the study of natural types, of the fixities of nature, which alone Plato recommends in the politicus; whilst in the ..."

3. The Truth and Error of Christian Science by M Carta Sturge (1908)
"Consequently, when our minds interpret our impressions for us in what we may call terms of fixities, in ordered relations and sequences which we are ..."

4. The Gunpowder Plot and Lord Mounteagle's Letter: Being a Proof, with Moral by Henry Hawkes Spink, Henry Hawkes Spink, jr (1902)
"These fixities of thought or self-evident fundamentals will be points from which the reason of the Historical Inquirer can take swing. ..."

5. Library Journal by Charles Ammi Cutter, American Library Association, Library Association (1896)
"But our lot is cast in the transition stage, at which we lose the fixities that were, before the coming of the harmonies that will be. ..."

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