Definition of Fixive

1. acting to fix a photographic image [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixive

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

Literary usage of Fixive

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

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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