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Prefixe vs Prefine - What's the difference?

prefixe | prefine |

As verbs the difference between prefixe and prefine

is that prefixe is obsolete spelling of prefix while prefine is to limit beforehand.

prefixe

English

Verb

  • *mid-15th century , Letters of Margaret of Anjou , Number 90, p. 123:
  • *:We, desiryng a final conclusion thereof, to reste and quiete of oure said tenants, praye yow hertely tht ye will, atte reverance of us, prefixe and set a day to mete with oure counseil
  • * 15th century? , in The History and Antiquities of Syon Monastery (1840) by James Aungier
  • *:And the sustres, like as they by them selfe procede to the eleccion of the abbes and chese her, so they schal by themselfe prefixe the day that thei schal procede to the eleccion.
  • *1576 , on a tombstone transcribed in A survey of the cities of London and Westminster (1733), Book III, p. 684:
  • *:In Shrop?hire'' at the ''Mindtowne'' borne, / the Time we here prefixe , / And dyed the Seventh of ''February'', / in ''Anno Seventy Sixe.
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    prefine

    English

    Verb

    (prefin)
  • (obsolete) To limit beforehand.
  • * 1610 , Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes
    • prefining unto itself no other limits than the uttermost bounds of the earth
    (Webster 1913)