2. Verb. (third-person singular of transfix) ¹
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Definition of Transfixes
1. transfix [v] - See also: transfix
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transfixes
Literary usage of Transfixes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated by John Colin Dunlop (1842)
"... who, at a most critical moment, and unseen by all, transfixes these ardent
lovers in succession with her arrows, and then bursting into view, ..."
2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... which hat the power of imparting to him whatever he wishes. With this he enters
the palace of Isabella, princess oí Sicily, and transfixes the ..."
3. American Medical Journal (1889)
"matized catgut in the fundus; throws the sac into a series of folds; transfixes
them with the same stitch, carried through one after the other up to the ..."
4. A Treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Lawrence (1854)
"The lids being held asunder by an assistant so as to expose the globe, the operator
transfixes the staphyloma with a hook, and removes it at one cut by ..."
5. Abdominal operations by Berkeley Moynihan Moynihan (1905)
"The needle now transfixes the liver to the under surface, where strand A is cut
and tied, and so on. All the knots in strand A are on the under surface, ..."
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