infix
noun
a morpheme or an entire word that is inserted within the body of another word or element, as Latin m in accumbō “I lie down,” as compared with accubuī “I lay down.”
infixed
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past participleof infix.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof infix.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
infixnouna morpheme or an entire word that is inserted within the body of another word or element, as Latin m in accumbō “I lie down,” as compared with accubuī “I lay down.”
Example Sentences
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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 H. E. (Henrietta Elizabeth) Marshall
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 Richard Hakluyt
The past tense is frequently indicated by an infixed -in-; if there is already an infixed -um-, the two elements combine to -in-m-, e.g., kinminek-ak “I am silent.”
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Edward Sapir
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 Edward Sapir
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 Robert Dallington
