infix

Definition

To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.

Etymology

Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past participle of infigō (“to fasten in”).

Example Sentences

• "to infix a sting, spear, or dart"
• "[…] in her eye I find A wonder, or a wondrous miracle, The shadow of myself form’d in her eye: Which being but the shadow of your son, Becomes a sun and makes your son a shadow: I do protest I never loved myself Till now infixed I beheld myself Drawn in the flattering table of her eye."
• "The fatal Dart a ready Passage found, And deep within his Heart infix’d the Wound:"