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unˈfix, v.
[un-2 3 and 7.]
1. trans. To undo from a fixed state or position; to unfasten, loosen.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. i. 208 Plucking to vnfixe an Enemie, Hee doth vnfasten so, and shake a friend. 1605― Macb. i. iii. 135 That suggestion, Whose horrid Image doth vnfixe my Heire. 1775Ash, Unfix,..to loosen, to make less fast. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 554 Storms that loudly threaten to unfix Islands. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. (1858) 438 Unfixing the haulser from the stem, and bringing it aft to the stern, we commenced hauling.
b. spec. in military use.
1802James Milit. Dict., To unfix, in a military sense, to take off, as Unfix Bayonet, on which the soldier disengages the bayonet from his piece, and returns it to the scabbard. 1813Examiner 10 May 303/2 Two men lost their bayonets, whilst in the act of unfixing them. 1859F. A. Griffiths Artill. Man. (1862) 13 Unfix Swords (or bayonets).
2. fig. To unsettle; to render uncertain or doubtful.
1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Wars i. 6 Neither gold,..nor the noise of War,..could any way unfix his mind. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 211 Now one Negative instance will appear..of far more force to unfix a pretending Rule, then two Affirmative to establish it. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xxvi. Wks. (1834) 548/2 By unfixing those motives which promote exertion, or by relaxing those habits which engender patient industry. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 322 The shock which had overturned his early prejudices had at the same time unfixed all his opinions.
3. intr. To become unfixed; to lose fixity.
1844Hood Forge ii. 417 But the ruthless talons refuse to unfix. 1863Reade Hard Cash II. 57 As the blood escaped, his eye unfixed, and the pupils contracted and dilated. |