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Definition of Transfix

1. Verb. To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe. "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"

2. Verb. Pierce with a sharp stake or point. "Impale a shrimp on a skewer"

Definition of Transfix

1. v. t. To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.

Definition of Transfix

1. Noun. (linguistics) A discontinuous affix, which occurs at more than one position in a word, typical of Semitic languages. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To render motionless, by arousing terror, amazement or awe. ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) To pierce with a sharp pointed weapon. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To fix or impale. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transfix

1. to impale [v -FIXED or -FIXT, -FIXING, -FIXES] - See also: impale

Medical Definition of Transfix

1. To pierce with a sharp instrument. Origin: L. Trans-figo, pp. -fixus, to pierce through, fr. Figo, to fasten (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transfix

transfiguration transfigurations transfigurative transfigure transfigured transfigures transfigurest transfigureth transfiguring transfiguringly

transfinite transfinite number transfinite numbers transfinites transfinity transfix (current term) transfixed transfixes transfixing transfixion

transfixion suture transfixions transfixt transflective transfluence transfluences transfluent transfluorescence transfluthrin transfluvial

Literary usage of Transfix

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"They do not charm us with their eyes, But they transfix with their advice; No partial sympathy they feel, With private woe or private weal, ..."

2. Traits of the Aborigines of America: A Poem by Lydia Howard Sigourney (1822)
"... transfix'd with dark, demoniac rage to find Her quiver all exhausted, and that soul Proudly unhurt. Yet those untutor'd tribes, Bound with their stern ..."

3. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth And delves the parallels in beauty's brow, 10 Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but ..."

4. A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer: Comprising Ancient and Modern Military by Thomas Wilhelm (1881)
"A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle, and metal point, now usually adorned with a small flag, and generally used by horsemen to transfix an ..."

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