A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1500-1650
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Fixit, Fixt, ppl. a. [e.m.E. fixed (1552), fixt, f. Fix,v.] Fixed, in various senses. —1513 Doug. i. Prol. 210.
To follow a fixt sentens or mater 1535 Stewart 19826.
At fixit da 15.. Clariodus v. 1032.
Beholding … with fixit eie 1562 6th Rep. Hist. MSS. App. 648/1.
Ane fixt bed of aik 1570 Satirical Poems xi. 7.
With fixit face and mynde attent c1650 Spalding I. 333.
Thay … brak doun the fixt wark and sylringis 1648 Glasgow B. Rec. 142.
Commanding all men … to repaire to the Greene … with fixit airmes
