affix

• Likewise, our judges are not hidden bureaucrats; they affix their names to their opinions. —  Spero News
• The "bee" appears also to be frequently indicated by the same character with an affix, as may be seen by reference to the lower divisions of Plates III*--X* of the Manuscript Troano The symbol No. —  Aids to the Study of the Maya Codices Sixth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1884-85, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1888, pages 253-372
• It is usual during fiestas of charity to enclose live sparrows in the banderillas which it is part of the play to affix, at great risk to the torero_, in the shoulders of the bull; the paper envelope bursts, and the birds are set at liberty. —  Spanish Life in Town and Country
• The prefix and the affix were bestowed by one of his customers, Vice-Admiral Munden, who, having cruised much upon the coast of Spain, acquired a weakness for Spanish titles, and bestowed a variant of one on the Chelsea coffee-house keeper That same Mr. Salter was an odd character. —  Inns and Taverns of Old London
• An affix is always part of a description of the object to whose name we attach it: e.g. the Caesar of the Julian gens.) —  Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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