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
"Cornua obnixi infigunt," fix their horns, not on, but in; infix their horns; stick their horns into each other; stick each other with their horns: q.d.
Inset, in′set, n. something set in, an insertion, esp. a leaf or leaves inserted in other leaves already folded.—v.t. to set in, to infix or implant.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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 David Hume
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 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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 David Hume
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 John Wesley Powell
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
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 John Wesley Powell
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 Edward Hayes
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
A young gentleman has just arrived from Gibraltar, who had been previously six weeks on his passage from Holland to that place, with his legs infixed in a pair of three-league boots.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by James Richardson
His praises were so many adder's stings infixed in my vulnerable breast.
From The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Thus -m- is the ordinary infixed pronoun of the 1st pers. sing., whilst -dom- is the corresponding relative form.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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 Herman Melville
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 F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller
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 Noah Webster
