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To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart.

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  1. v. t. To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart.
  2. v. t. 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.
  4. n. an word/affix">affix that is word/inserted">inserted inside the word
  5. v. put or introduce into something
  6. v. word/attach">attach a word/morpheme">morpheme into a stem word
  7. 1. 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. 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. Something infixed. [R.] Welsford.
  8. Something infixed. [R.] Welsford.
  9. n. an word/affix">affix that is word/inserted">inserted inside the word v. attach a morpheme into a stem word