transfixion
- a word derived from transfix.
Example Sentences
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And I think this transfixion that happens with this Greyhound, who I think I met once, you know, and then stands there transfixed, there’s a beauty in that—that there’s, you know, everything seems tied.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 20, 2019
Sewell describes a case of transfixion of the chest in a youth of eighteen.
From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Pyle, Walter L. (Walter Lytle)
I have been told that Aunt Serapheema did not answer him for fully half a minute, but subjected him to what might be called a process of ocular transfixion.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
When this is applied, a method of amputation once practised by Mr. Syme, though not so rapid as the double-flap method by transfixion, will be found very easy, and to result in most excellent flaps.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
We have to answer that the process of creative evolution makes imperative the transfixion by the intellect of these so-called spiritual perceptions.
From The Fourth Dimensional Reaches of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition by Williams, Cora Lenore
