Chiefly in pa. pple. [Partly f. L. suffixus (see prec.), partly f. SUFFIX sb.]
1. trans. To fix or place under; to subjoin.
1604. R. Cawdrey, Table Alph., Suffixed, fastned vnto.
1891. Orby Shipley, in Downside Rev., X. 179. These are the words or letters which are suffixed to the larger part of the unacknowledged verse in the MS. volume of Dom Morrall.
1900. J. A. R. Marriott, in 19th Cent., Aug., 240. That splendid outburst of indignant eloquence which he [Tennyson] suffixed as a dedicatory epilogue to the Idylls of the King.
2. To add as a suffix.
1778. Bp. Lowth, Transl. Isaiah, Notes 243. It occurs in other instances with a Pronoun suffixed.
1837. Richardson, Dict., I. 64. From which by suffixing ed, we form a new participle.
1869. Peile, Gk. & Lat. Etym. (1875), 55. If pronominal, they must have been suffixed at first to modify the root in a general way.
So Suffixed ppl. a., used as a suffix.
1869. Bleek, Comp. Gram. S. Afr. Lang., II. 136, note. The use of such a suffixed article had become so prevalent as [etc.].
a. 1902. A. B. Davidson, Old Test. Prophecy (1903), xx. 348. All the suffixed pronouns refer not to seed in general, but to that one individual.
