?c1525 (a1503) Receyt Ladie Kateryne (Coll. Arms M.13) (1990) iii. 48 The multitude of nobles..assemblid them toguyder, and at thoure prefixed hade made their repairellys and were redye at the Kinges lodging.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. 172 He admonist his army to be reddy at ane prefixt day [L. in diem certam].

?1594 W. Fowler Wks. (1936) II. 170 That the very prefixt daies of the baptisme were..delaied.

1652 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Hist. Relations Flanders 5 A Council composed of a certain prefixt number of persons.

1695 E. Ravenscroft Canterbury Guests i. vi. 8 Tomorrow is the prefix'd day, unless prevented by Stratagem: My Sister and I, by his Gracious Letters, are invited down to his Wedding.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry x. 46 There is no prefix'd Time for planting Turneps.

1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. iii. iv. 329 Upon the strength of some prefixed persuasion.

1819 Times 16 Dec. 2/6 He shall, under heavier penalties, quit this country at a prefixed time.

1896 Daily News 1 Dec. 8/7 He proceeds..according to a prefixed plan.

1921 Times 23 Dec. 11/4 Several important express services have had to be started weeks in advance of the prefixed dates.

1978 Whitaker's Almanack 593/2 The Common Market Commission withdrew its pre-fixed export subsidies.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Sept. a19/6 Most of the ‘referenda’ or ‘elections’ that take place in our region usually result in fantastic pre-fixed victories.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix ii. v. 995 Published in the yeere 1598..with the speciall prefixed approbations of Stephanus Hoieda..and Petrus De Onua.

1666 J. Eliot Indian Gram. Begun 38 This Mode..doth cast off the Affix, or prefixed Pronoun.

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. i. 259 He seldom fails, in some prefix'd Apology, to speak in such a manner of Criticism and Art.

1796 W. Cliffton Group 6 The prefixed Engraving was designed, merely as an index, to direct thy eyes to their object, a Pointer.

1845 Proc. Philol. Soc. 2 172 In support of the assumed connection between the termination or prefixed sign of the genitive case and the relative.

1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. xii. 244 Using..suffixed instead of prefixed particles.

1898 Daily News 5 Mar. 6/2 Byron's signature..appears..sometimes as ‘Noel Byron’, or ‘N. B.’, the prefixed name being assumed by him for reasons here noted.

1921 E. Sapir Lang. iv. 71 The use of prefixed elements to the complete exclusion of suffixes, is far less common. A good example is Khmer (or Cambodgian).

1947 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 169 237 Distinction between the stereoisomers of the amino acids is made by a prefixed small capital letter d or l to denote the configurational family to which the a-carbon atom belongs.

1991 Internat. Rev. Appl. Ling. in Lang. Teaching 29 327 Another possible explanation of the results in tests 1–5 is that our learners stored the prefixed words as single units but decomposed stems + suffixes.

1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 74 Sith the holy-man Fore-tels prefixtly [1606 prefixly] What, and Where, and Whan.

a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) 429 The space of a few dayes, and those prefixedly numbred, being granted.

1892 C. S. Sherrington in Jrnl. Physiol. 13 635 A plexus and its trunks and branches will..be referred to as prefixed if containing spinal root-filaments attached to the cord further forward (headward) than are the root-filaments entering the corresponding trunks and branches of a converse class of plexus which will be referred to conversely as postfixed.

1931 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 107 511 In animals with a normal or ‘pre-fixed’ sacral plexus only the 6th post-thoracic dorsal root has been divided.

2003 Neurosurgery 53 676 A prefixed [brachial] plexus was observed in 25.5% of cases.