The phrase "affixed by" is a perfectly valid part of a sentence in written English.
It is generally used to mean "attached or connected by" and is often used when discussing signatures. Example: The report was sealed with a signature affixed by the department head.
Was it affixed by your political opponents?
7. The clasp is affixed by four nails.
The Pont des Arts in Paris is becoming choked with padlocks affixed by lovers.
The site of the lynching is memorialized by only a tiny plaque -- affixed by Rabbi Steven Lebow.
In a related action, a photograph shows a rock whose face is marked by a large rectangle of leaves, which are affixed by water.
The silk was affixed by hand with a water-soluble clear glue made from fish; the pieces can be removed with a wet sponge.
It is unlawful, the city's administrative code says, for anyone to "attach or affix by any means whatsoever any handbill, poster, notice, sign" on lampposts, traffic signs and poles or "other such item or structure in any street".
It is unlawful, the city's administrative code says, for anyone to "attach or affix by any means whatsoever any handbill, poster, notice, sign" on lampposts, traffic signs and sign poles or "other such item or structure in any street".
A sheet of plywood, edged with black foam rubber, was wedged into the window frame and affixed there by metal clamps.
Just as "chic" is the thing that everyone knows about the French, the word hygge must now be affixed, almost by law, to any media story about Denmark or, indeed, anything remotely Scandinavian, whether the subject is clothes, furniture, cookery, travel, or working hours.
The Latin inscription on their tomb, Regno consortes et urna, hic obdormimus Elizabetha et Maria sorores, in spe resurrectionis (affixed there by James I when he succeeded Elizabeth) translates to "Consorts in realm and tomb, here we sleep, Elizabeth and Mary, sisters, in hope of resurrection".
