Definition of Transfixes

1. Noun. (plural of transfix) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of transfix) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transfixes

1. transfix [v] - See also: transfix

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transfixes

transfigurative
transfigure
transfigured
transfigures
transfigurest
transfigureth
transfiguring
transfiguringly
transfinite
transfinite number
transfinite numbers
transfinites
transfinity
transfix
transfixed
transfixes
transfixing
transfixion
transfixion suture
transfixions
transfixt
transflective
transfluence
transfluences
transfluent
transfluorescence
transfluthrin
transfluvial
transflux
transfluxes

Literary usage of Transfixes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of Fiction: Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated by John Colin Dunlop (1842)
"... who, at a most critical moment, and unseen by all, transfixes these ardent lovers in succession with her arrows, and then bursting into view, ..."

2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"... which hat the power of imparting to him whatever he wishes. With this he enters the palace of Isabella, princess oí Sicily, and transfixes the ..."

3. American Medical Journal (1889)
"matized catgut in the fundus; throws the sac into a series of folds; transfixes them with the same stitch, carried through one after the other up to the ..."

4. A Treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Lawrence (1854)
"The lids being held asunder by an assistant so as to expose the globe, the operator transfixes the staphyloma with a hook, and removes it at one cut by ..."

5. Abdominal operations by Berkeley Moynihan Moynihan (1905)
"The needle now transfixes the liver to the under surface, where strand A is cut and tied, and so on. All the knots in strand A are on the under surface, ..."

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