This is its narrow and exact meaning; if you start tacking on all the legitimate suffixes and infixes, then, as Mark Twain said of the German Schlag and Zug, there is probably nothing whatever that it does not mean. ❋ Superversive (2006)
Other infixes include re-donk-u-lous, which is already in use, at least among people I am interested in. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Unique in the English language as one of the few ‘infixes’ as opposed to prefix or suffix. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As you probably know, the aorist vs present root is often contrasted by suffixes/infixes. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Another story similar to "yeah, right", but with no names attached: Lecturer says, "The English language has examples of suffixes and prefixes, but no examples of infixes, even though these are not uncommon in other languages." ❋ Unknown (2004)
It is calculated that the whole number of tenses or shades of meaning which a Mpongwe radical verb may be made to express, with the aid of its auxiliary particles, augmentatives, and negatives — prefixes, infixes, and suffixes — is between twelve and fifteen hundred, worse than an Arabic triliteral. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The ray which once might have illuminated them, like the mild radiance of the day, now pierces them like lightning, -- a fierce and fatal fire, that, without injury to the external parts, infixes a burning torment at the heart. ❋ William Cleaver Wilkinson (N/A)
They may be grouped into six main types: word order; composition; affixation, including the use of prefixes, suffixes, and infixes; internal modification of the radical or grammatical element, whether this affects a vowel or a consonant; reduplication; and accentual differences, whether dynamic (stress) or tonal (pitch). ❋ Unknown (1921)
There is clearly a world of difference between a prefixing language like Cambodgian, which limits itself, so far as its prefixes (and infixes) are concerned, to the expression of derivational concepts, and the Bantu languages, in which the prefixed elements have a far-reaching significance as symbols of syntactic relations. ❋ Unknown (1921)
It is calculated that the whole number of tenses or shades of meaning which a Mpongwe radical verb may be made to express, with the aid of its auxiliary particles, augmentatives, and negatives -- prefixes, infixes, and suffixes -- is between twelve and fifteen hundred, worse than an Arabic triliteral. ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)
Of every heart on earth infixes deep its restless twists: ❋ William Blake (1792)
One who concludes somebody to be near him, when he hears an articulate voice in the dark, reasons justly and naturally; though that conclusion be derived from nothing but custom, which infixes and inlivens the idea of a human creature, on account of his usual conjunction with the present impression. ❋ David Hume (1743)
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. ❋ David Hume (1743)
The frequent repetition of any idea infixes it in the imagination; but coued never possibly of itself produce belief, if that act of the mind was, by the original constitution of our natures, annexed only to a reasoning and comparison of ideas. ❋ David Hume (1743)
We have been so much accustomed to the names of MARS, JUPITER, VENUS, that in the same manner as education infixes any opinion, the constant repetition of these ideas makes them enter into the mind with facility, and prevail upon the fancy, without influencing the judgment. ❋ David Hume (1743)
JUPITER, VENUS, that in the same manner as education infixes any opinion, the constant repetition of these ideas makes them enter into the mind with facility, and prevail upon the fancy, without influencing the judgment. ❋ Unknown (1739)
The frequent repetition of any idea infixes it in the imagination; but cou'd never possibly of itself produce belief, if that act of the mind was, by the original constitution of our natures, annex'd only to a reasoning and comparison of ideas. ❋ Unknown (1739)
OMG, your pants are [absofuckinglutely] the most homofuckingsexual pants I've ever [laid] eyes on. [Pwnd] by infix. ❋ Nate B. (2006)
