infix
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But CPL uses infix notation; I’d have to get all the operator precedence right to generate Lisp code with the parens in the right place.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 23, 2011
It has been proved at large, that the influence of belief is at once to inliven and infix any idea in the imagination, and prevent all kind of hesitation and uncertainty about it.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
Perhaps I will throw Yerreeningga booramboonda If a negative meaning be required, it is effected by means of an infix, mooga, between the verb-stem and the abbreviated pronoun.
From The Gundungurra Language by Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton)
I have a friend who loves me as his life, and in whose breast I should infix a mortal sting if I ungratefully left him.
From Mathilda by Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft
An infix, muga, between the stem of the verb and the termination, gives a negative meaning, as, Ngubumugamangalu, we, dual exclusive, did not beat.
From The Wiradyuri and Other Languages of New South Wales by Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton)
Between these prefixes and the noun or verb, pronominal infixes are introduced, by which possession is denoted in the case of a noun, and the subject in that of a verb.
From Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. by Various
It gives them more force and influence; makes them appear of greater importance; infixes them in the mind; and renders them the governing principles of all our actions.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
The formative parts are affixes; and affixes may be divided into three classes, prefixes, suffixes, and infixes.
From On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 by Powell, John Wesley
To a large extent the pronouns are incorporated in the verbs as prefixes, infixes, or suffixes.
From On the Evolution of Language First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 1-16 by Powell, John Wesley
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)
When I hear such complaints, and they are not unfrequent from the younger members of large families, I have little doubt that the sting in all these murmurs is infixed by their pride.
From The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by Lady, An English
The one is the use of pronouns as objects infixed between particle and verb, or in a verb compounded with a preposition between preposition and verb.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
And afterwards were erected not far from that place the arms of England engraven in lead, and infixed upon a pillar of wood.
From Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland by Hayes, Edward, fl. 1580.
Thus, an infixed -um- is characteristic of many intransitive verbs with personal pronominal suffixes, e.g., sad- “to wait,” sumid-ak “I wait”; kineg “silent,” kuminek-ak “I am silent.”
From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward
An infixing stillness, now thrust a long rivet through the night, and fast nailed it to that side of the world.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Languages in India, families of, 70. —— isolating, combinatory, and inflectional, 79. —— suffixing, prefixing, affixing, and infixing, 85.
From Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV Essays chiefly on the Science of Language by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)
