transfix

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Conquest goes with thee SOLDIER The Burgundian duke Attacks the bridge ISABEL Would that ten hostile spears Might his perfidious heart transfix, the traitor SOLDIER.

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  1. transitive verb To pierce with or as if with a pointed weapon.
  2. transitive verb To fix fast; impale.
  3. transitive verb To render motionless, as with terror, amazement, or awe.

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  • It is said that if we transfix, with a steel needle, a large nerve of a living animal, as the great ischiatic, and let it remain in that condition a suitable time, the needle becomes permanently magnetized. —  A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication
  • Conquest goes with thee SOLDIER The Burgundian duke Attacks the bridge ISABEL Would that ten hostile spears Might his perfidious heart transfix, the traitor SOLDIER. —  The Works of Frederich Schiller
  • Might his perfidious heart transfix, the traitor! —  Maid of Orleans
  • The assistants part, transfix, and roast the rest: —  The Iliad
  • The assistants part, transfix, and roast the rest; —  The Iliad
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin trānsfīgere, trānsfīx- : trāns-, trans- + fīgere, to pierce, fasten; see dhīgw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin transfixus, past participle of transfigere (later Italian trafiggere), transfix, from trans, through, + figere, fix, fasten: see fix.
 

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