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

Consider that innumerable race of insects, which either are bred on the body of each animal, or, flying about, infix their stings in him.

From Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion by Hume, David

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

It is more than to infuse, it is to infix it in such a manner as that it never may wear out.

From Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies by Sherbo, Arthur

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)