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fixatio

fixatio 1 fixing, determining. totus ordo ecclesiasticarum solemnitatum confunditur per hujusmodi primationes erroneas secundum kalendarium, sicut per equinoctionum falsam ~onem [v. l. fixionem] Bacon Tert. 289. 2 (alch.) ‘fixation’, process of reducing volatile spirit or essence to stable form not affected by fire or other agent of change. Cf. 2 fixio 4. sunt igitur claves artis congelatio, resolutio, inceratio, projectio. sed alio modo purificatio, distillatio, separatio, calcinatio, et ~o Bacon NM 548; argentum est corpus mundum ‥ ex argento vivo puro, fere fixo, ‥ et deficit ei pauca ~o Spec. Alch. 378; qui fundavit terram super bases suas ne moveat se in seculum (ibi est elementorum ~o) Ripley 152; pro sublimacionibus et ~onibus Ib. 187.

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