affixingn.

1568 in J. Hosack Mary Queen of Scots (1869) 539 All payntouris and vtheris suspectit for working or affixing of the saidis placardis.

1643 in Acts Gen. Assembly Church of Scotl. (1843) 79 Abuses, in hinging of pensils and brods, affixing of honours and arms,..hath crept in.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 6/2 The affixing of the residence of God to a consecrated place.

1791 T. Paine Rights of Man 139 Among the curiosities which this contentious debate afforded, was that of making the Great Seal into a King, the affixing of which to an act, was to be royal authority.

1826 R. Sharp Diary 2 Nov. (1997) 81 So this nation of Shopkeepers have vanished within a very few years; has the Country in general been ashamed of Bonaparte's affixing their calling upon them as a stigma?

1880 P.O. Guide 255 Best mode of affixing stamps.

1913 S. T. H. Hurwitz Root-determinatives in Semitic Speech i. 5 Any apparent variation from the principle is due to the affixing of other distinct determinative elements.

1959 Times 12 Dec. 9/3 Any of us whose sensitivity does not permit the affixing of alien or artificial berries can no doubt compromise by mixing shoots of berried shrubs.

2004 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 27 May a25/4 The actual affixing of his new medallion to the hood of his car.