INFIX

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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.

3.
n.

Something infixed. [R.] Welsford.


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