Both Uses of
affix
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- Carved globes of wood were affixed under the jutting stories.†
Chpt 1 *
- It was considered, moreover, an ugly and ominous circumstance, that Colonel Pyncheon's picture—in obedience, it was said, to a provision of his will—remained affixed to the wall of the room in which he died.†
Chpt 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(affix) attach to
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, "affix" can be used as a noun to refer to a linguistic element added to a word to produce an inflected or derived form such as "un" in "unhappy".