[ + -ING2.] That fixes.
(Often difficult to distinguish from the vbl. sb. used attrib.: see prec. 3.)
1641. French, Distill., i. (1651), 10–1. Fixation, is the making of any volatile, spiritual body endure the fire, and not flye away, whether it be done by often reiterated distillations, or sublimations, or by the adding of some fixing thing to it.
1873. Hamerton, Intell. Life, X. x. 387. The late-risers, though obeying no rule, for the abandoned sinner recognizes none, become regular in their late rising from the gradual fixing power of habit.
