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age like the Greek or Latin, consisting largely of stems with variable terminations or suffixes which were once independent words. English is both agglutinative, as, manlike, headache, and inflective, as, he, his, him. Cf. Agglutinative.

ascendency; as, an influential man, station, argument, etc. A very influential Gascon prefix. Earle.

Below; beneath; under; after; -- often used as a prefix.

A suffix used to from present participles; as, singing, playing.

To infix, as in a globe; to fix or secure firmly. [Obs.] Milton.

exture or into the mental or moral constitution of; to stain; to saturate; to imbue; to infix deeply. Our fields ingrained with blood. Daniel. Cruelty and jealousy seem to be ingrained in a man who has these vices at all. Helps.

To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities. They do but inhere in the subject that supports them. Digby.

To infix. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A dwelling or standing on something; fixedness; persistence. [Obs.] Shak.

To set a soul in; reflexively, to fix one's strongest affections on. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor. [He] could not but insoul himself in her. Feltham.

Lack of determination of fixedness; inconstancy; fickleness; mutability; changeableness; as, instability of character, temper, custom, etc. Addison.

That which is instituted, established, or fixed, as a law, habit, or custom. Glover.

To fix the mind on; to attend to; to take care of; to superintend; to regard. [Obs.] Having no children, she did, with singular care and tenderness, intend the education of Philip. Bacon. My soul, not being able to intend two things at once, abated of its fervency in praying. Fuller.

ing or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness. Intention is when the mind, with great earnestness, and of choice, fixes its view on any idea. Locke.

In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed.

A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit.

a gas, and not in a separate chamber, as in a steam- engine boiler. The gas used may be a fixed gas, or one derived from alcohol, ether, gasoline (petrol), naphtha, oil (petroleum), etc. There are three main classes: (1) gas engines proper, using fixed gases, as coal, blast-furnace, or producer gas; (2) engines using t…

A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

point, has to the angle which the tangent to the curve at the movable point makes with a fixed line. -- Intrinsic value. See the Note under Value, n.

A prefix signifying within, into, in, inward; as, introduce, introreception, introthoracic.