Anti or semi

Usage examples of prefix.

Having stilled its immemorial allocution to the moon, the watch-dog was assisting a negro who, prefixing a team of mules to the plow, was flatting and sharping contentedly at his task.

Those possessing extra-sensory powers sufficiently well-developed to make walking or manipulatory appendages unnecessary were given the prefix V, regardless of size or shape.

Sainte Beuve has prefixed her recovered portrait in an essay marked by his best touches.

Butler was written by an anonymous author, said by William Oldys to be Sir James Astrey, and prefixed to the edition of 1704.

To this edition are prefixed the commendatory verses of Barrow and Marvell.

Alice did come from a noble British house but she could not claim to have Lady prefixed to her name.

As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention as is due to the sedulous instructor of youth, and the careful performer of my Sabbath duties, I will forbear to hold up a candle to the daylight, or to point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page.

There are in Gruter inscriptions, wherein he has the title of Semon prefixed, and is also styled Sanctus.

The sky was lit at uneven intervals by waste-gas fires, and the air was foul with the stink of petroleum distillates: aviation kerosene, gasoline, diesel fuel, benzine, nitrogen tetroxide for intercontinental missiles, lubricating oils of various grades, and complex petrochemicals identified only by their alphanumeric prefixes.

Ouemessourit, probably a corruption of their name by the Illinois tribe, with the characteristic Algonquian prefix.

As nowadays a section on the nature of the Christian religion is usually prefixed to a treatise on dogmatics, in order to prepare and introduce the reader, so also the Johannine prologue seems to be intended as an introduction of this kind.

This epistle he prefixed to his poems printed at Kilmarnock in the year 1789: he loved to speak of his early comrade, and supplied Walker with some very valuable anecdotes: he died one of the magistrates of Irvine, on the 2d of May, 1830, at the age of seventy.

He set it on the shelf next to the bulky teleprinter, sat down, and clacked off the prefix and routing instructions, winding a small handle at the side of the machine at the end of each word.

Other verbal stems already prefix the stem-vowel as a kind of intensification, e.

Count Sylvius, but perhaps you would kindly give me my prefix when you address me.