have prefixed

present perfect
of prefix.

prefix

noun

an affix placed before a word, base, or another prefix to modify a term's meaning, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in proabolition. Compatible prefixes can work together, as un- and re- in unrefundable.

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have prefixed

How this is effected the following plates will sufficiently explain, to which I have prefixed a suitable introduction, and a concise and impartial history of the origin and progressive improvements of this art.

From The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

I might, in like manner, have prefixed to mine the name either of Cuth, or Cuthim; for, upon the history of this people my system chiefly turns.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

I have prefixed an introductory discourse concerning Taste; it is a matter curious in itself; and it leads naturally enough to the principal inquiry.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

To these essays I have prefixed an ode, "Ara Pacis," written during the first days of the war.

From The Forerunners by Romain Rolland

To all of his novels he might appropriately have prefixed the words of the author of Sordello: "My stress lay on the incidents in the development of a soul; little else is worth study."

From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps