Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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To these he has prefixed a historical glance at the political story of Cuba, that may not be unworthy of preservation.
From History of Cuba; or, Notes of a Traveller in the Tropics Being a Political, Historical, and Statistical Account of the Island, from its First Discovery to the Present Time by Maturin Murray Ballou
I have one of the earliest copies of the song, and it has prefixed, “Tune of Tarry Woo.”
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Robert Burns
Southey has also made the tradition the subject of a ballad entitled King Charlemain to which he has prefixed a French translation of the passage of Petrarch.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
I notice that the amendment which the ladies here now propose has prefixed to it this phrase: "The right of suffrage in the United States shall be based on citizenship."
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
To the original work of Mazerai, M. Combet has prefixed an elaborate introduction, while he has added in the form of an appendix whatever relates to more recent matters, with copious notes and commentaries.
From The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various
