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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of infix.

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Examples

  • And while I love Bank's writing, both with or with out the infixed M, he doesn't have the same sort of weight in the field that Gibson or Rowling has.

    Possible Worldcon Guests of Honor 2009

  • Besides, to Adam, the conception of the future was so inseparable from the painful image of his father that the fear of any fatal accident to him was excluded by the deeply infixed fear of his continual degradation.

    Adam Bede 2004

  • The New York Times disagrees; the bank, or infixed subhead, of its Hong Kong article read, “The Hang Seng sets the scene for a global selloff,” unhyphenated.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • The New York Times disagrees; the bank, or infixed subhead, of its Hong Kong article read, “The Hang Seng sets the scene for a global selloff,” unhyphenated.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • The New York Times disagrees; the bank, or infixed subhead, of its Hong Kong article read, “The Hang Seng sets the scene for a global selloff,” unhyphenated.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • A young gentleman has just arrived from Gibraltar, who had been previously six weeks on his passage from Holland to that place, with his legs infixed in a pair of three-league boots.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • The New York Times disagrees; the bank, or infixed subhead, of its Hong Kong article read, “The Hang Seng sets the scene for a global selloff,” unhyphenated.

    No Uncertain Terms William Safire 2003

  • Gnawed within and scorched without, with the infixed, unrelenting fangs of some incurable idea; such an one, could he be found, would seem the very man to dart his iron and lift his lance against the most appalling of all brutes.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • When the images of these perceptions, infixed in the memory, are revisited by recollection, the matter is still a transaction which belongs to the outward man.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

  • Matter, it is agreed, must be void of quality in order to accept the types of the universe, so and much more must the soul be kept formless if there is to be no infixed impediment to prevent it being brimmed and lit by the

    The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

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