Prefix

/ˈpɹiːfɪks/ · noun

Meaning

Something placed before another.

Definitions by Sense

1. Something placed before another
2. (transitive) To determine beforehand; to set in advance.
3. (transitive) To put or fix before, or at the beginning of something; to place at the start.

Example Sentences

But the danger was, that a man can hardly prefix any certaine limits unto his desire[…].

It is important to realize that pregivenness or prefixing is a kind of anteriority that does its work in the present; subjects and meanings in part emerge in enuciative co-constitutive moments.

For the classical ranks, he says, were taken from the nomenclature of the family system (indeed, they are kinship terms as well as political ones), and this arrangement was confused and inelegant. But the Taiping terms are all prefixed with 'T’ien' [translating 天 (Tiān)]—the capital is T’ien-ching [translating 天京 (Tiānjīng)], soldiers are T’ien-ping [translating 天兵 (Tiānbīng)], officials are T’ien-kuan [translating 天官]—for the T’ien-wang’s [translating 天王 (Tiānwáng)] authority derives from the T’ien-fu [translating 天父 (Tiānfù)].

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Word Forms

• prefixes
• præfix
• prefixe
• prefixing
• prefixed

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