Obs. or arch. See FIXTURE. [ad. late L. fixūra, f. fīgĕre to FIX].
Fixed condition, position, or attitude; fixedness, stability.
1603. Drayton, Bar. Wars., I. xxxiii.
| This dreadfull Commet drew her wondring eye, | |
| Which now began his golden head to reare, | |
| Whose glorious fixure in so faire a sky, | |
| Strikes the beholder with a chilly feare. |
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., I. iii. 101.
| Divert and crack, rend and deracinate | |
| The vnity and married calm of States | |
| Quite from their fixure [Ff. 3 and 4 fixture]! | |
| Ibid. (1611), Wint. T., V. iii. 67. | |
| Leo. The fixure of her Eye ha’s motion in’t, | |
| As we are mock’d with Art. |
1648. W. Montagu, Miscellanea Spiritualia: or Devout Essaies, I. vi. § 3. 62. The unfaithfulnesse of ail materiall goods, in point of duration and fixure.
1680. Hon. Cavalier, 7. Those Wandring Stars who have no Fixure from Heaven.
1753. Gray’s-Inn Journal (1756), II. No. 52, 18. The Fixure of her Eyes, and Feebleness of her whole Person, when coming forward from the Tomb, are natural circumstances.
1817. Coleridge, Lay Sermon, in Ch. & St. (1839), 404. The very habit and fixures, as it were, that had been impressed on their frames by the former ill-fed, ill-clothed, and unfuelled winters.
