prefixturen.

1790 W. Herbert Ames' Typogr. Antiq. (rev. ed.) III. 1342 My copy has not title-page or other prefixture whereby to ascertain the author, printer, or date of this book.

1821 New Monthly Mag. 2 131 The ancient fiddle, with its cognomen, or monosyllabic praefixture, was, we fancy, a low instrument.

1833 T. Hamilton Men & Manners Amer. I. viii. 241 The members of the Federal Senate are addressed with the prefixture of Honourable.

1872 Galaxy Mar. 411/1 The premonitory ‘Notices of an Independent Press’ this self-appointed editor coolly transfers to the end of the book,..and draws a humorous excusatory parallel for this prefixture from the circus band.

1920 M. Van Doren Poetry J. Dryden i. 30 The epic which followed..needed the elaborate introduction of essays..by Davenant and Hobbes. These four prefixtures are interesting.

1998 Hecate (Nexis) 30 Nov. 72 There is more to the now well established institutional power of (post)colonialism than the tussle over its adorning prefixture.

1824 J. Winterbottom Observ. Two Fr. Words 9 Warton speaks of the prefixture of the augment y.

1879 J. A. H. Murray tr. A. Schiefner in Address to Philol. Soc. 41 In this language [sc. Abchasian] the most interesting feature is the remarkable prefixture of the personal pronouns. For example..ab ‘father’ makes sab ‘my father’.

1936 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 22 320 A binary operator, i.e., a word whose prefixture to two juxtaposed terms produces a term.