a. rare–1. [Lat. type *fixīvus f. figĕre to FIX.] Adapted to fix, tending to fix. (Cf. FIXATIVE).
a. 1834. Coleridge, Biog. Lit. (1847), I. 322, App. When it acts as a Solid (= rectius, Rigid) it exerts the same fixive power by causing a retraction of each particle in upon itself.
