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His praises were so many adder's stings infixed in my vulnerable breast.

From The Last Man by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft

And by what industrie in hir starrie forehead pampynulated with threds of gold aptly disposed, she had infixed the fairest part of the heauens, or the splendycant Heraclea.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert

And afterward were erected not farre from that place the Armes of England ingrauen in lead, and infixed vpon a pillar of wood.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. by Hakluyt, Richard

It was on this voyage that Sir Humphrey found and claimed Newfoundland as an English possession, setting up there "the Arms of England ingraven in lead and infixed upon a pillar of wood."

From English Literature for Boys and Girls by Marshall, H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth)

Thus, an infixed -in- conveys the idea of the product of an accomplished action, e.g., kayu “wood,” kinayu “gathered wood.”

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward