1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 555/2 We..had promised to the same William..free departyng without prefixing of anye terme.

a1618 W. Bradshaw Expos. Second Epist. to Thessalonians (1620) 2 The prefixing of their names doth so much the more particularly confirme the authoritie thereof.

1691 A. Gavin Frauds Romish Monks (ed. 3) 327 They have not the patience themselves to stay out the time of their own prefixing.

1844 Littell's Living Age 9 Nov. 120/1 The word is formed by the pre-fixing of m, a well known usage in the Oriental formation of nouns.

1919 H. E. Krehbiel More Chapters of Opera v. 126 To make an opera out of it required little else than the prefixing of a prologue and the investiture of the lines with music.

1980 Daily Tel. 16 Jan. 1/2 They confined their deeds to..suspending the ‘pre-fixing’ of export subsidies on butter sales to Moscow.

1998 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 118 43 This prefixing to the History of a strongly intellectual section in the narrator's own voice creates an important ambivalence in our reaction to the rest of the work.

1875 E. B. Tylor in Encycl. Brit. IV. 119/1 The Negro-Kafir family consists of the prefixing languages spoken by most African tribes.

1893 Photogr. Ann. 290 The troublesome and risky pre-fixing acid clearing bath is not necessary.

1970 Language 46 402 Some of the so-called prefixing forms of Luo are almost isomorphic semantically with their suffixal counterparts in Tarascan.