Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FIX-A'TION, n.

1. The act of fixing.
2. Stability; firmness; steadiness a state of being established; as, fixation in matters of religion. King Charles.
3. Residence in a certain place; or a place of residence. [Little used.] To light, created to the first day, God gave no certain place or fixation. Ralegh.
4. That firm state of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; as, the fixation of gold or other metals. Bacon. Encyc.
5. The act or process of ceasing to be fluid and becoming firm; state of being fixed. Glanville.