Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of forefix
adjectiveforefixed (comparative more forefixed, superlative most forefixed)
comparative more forefixed · superlative most forefixed
- Fixed in advance; predetermined.
The genius of Puritanism, with all its forefixed concatenation of misdeeds and punishments, had served me out properly.
1970, John Glassco, Memoirs of Montparnasse, New York, published 2007, page 71
Origin
From forefix, equivalent to fore- + fix + -ed.
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