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Infix v. t. (past & past part. infixed; pres. part. infixing)

To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart. "The fatal dart a ready passage found, And deep within her heart infixed the wound."

To implant or fix; to instill; to inculcate, as principles, thoughts, or instructions; as, to infix good principles in the mind, or ideas in the memory.

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Etymology of 'Infix'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Infix" Quotes from Famous Books

... writings, as they furnish the business of our younger, and the amusement of our riper, years; and more especially make the study of all those, who devote themselves to poetry and the stage, insensibly infix in us an excessive veneration for all affairs in which they were concerned; insomuch, that no other subjects or events seem considerable enough, or rise, in any proportion, to our ideas of the dignity of the tragic scene, but such as time and long admiration ...

— The Art Of Poetry An Epistle To The Pisos - Q. Horatii Flacci Epistola Ad Pisones, De Arte Poetica. • Horace

... terms is suppressed, so any hyphens appearing at the end of the line are infix grouping ...

— Rashi • Maurice Liber

Words linked to "Infix" : input, intubate, imbed, attach, cannulize, connect, plug into, insert, cannulise, introduce, plug in, instil, graft, implant, instill, cannulate, sandwich, canulate, penetrate