Obs. [ad. med.L. fixiōn-em, n. of action f. L. fīgĕre to FIX. Cf. OF. fixion.] = FIXATION 3.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 367. Howe much the lesse they are like to the poynte of a needle so muche is the myne found to bee the perfecter, bycause this is a token of purenesse and fixion.
1605. Timme, Quersit., I. xiv. 67. A propertie belonging to the most fixed salts, and a token of their assured and most constant fixion.
a. 1631. Donne, Serm. (1640), lxiv. 648. There must be a Fixion, a settling thereof, so that it shall not evaporate into nothing.
