fixuren.
/ˈfɪksjʊə/ Obsolete or archaic.
Fixed condition, position, or attitude; fixedness, stability.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > condition of remaining in one place
fixure1603
stability1625
fixedness1647
lying1683
stationariness1727
fixation1894
staticness1940
the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > fixed or stable
footing1567
foothold1577
fixure1603
fixation1614
ubi1614
handhold1643
the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > stability > condition of being firmly fixed
fastnesseOE
firmitya1450
stablishness1530
firmitude?1541
steadfastnessa1542
firmness1600
fixure1603
security1770
fixation1894
1603 M. Drayton Barrons Wars i. xxxiii. 12 This dreadfull Commet..Whose glorious fixure in so faire a sky, Strikes the beholder with a chilly feare.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. iii. 101 Rend..The vnitie..of states Quite from their fixure [Ff. 3 and 4 fixture] . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. iii. 67 The fixure of her Eye ha's motion in't. View more context for this quotation
1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia i. vi. §3. 62 The unfaithfulnesse of all materiall goods, in point of duration and fixure.
1680 Hon. Cavalier 7 Those Wandring Stars who have no Fixure from Heaven.
1753 Gray's-Inn Jrnl. (1756) II. No. 53 The Fixure of her Eyes, and Feebleness of her whole Person.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are Ye that Sow in On Constit. Church & State (1839) 404 The very habit and fixures [1817 fixtures],..that had been impressed on their frames by their former..winters.
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