to fasten, fix, set, drive, set up, plant: crucem ad civium supplicium defigi iubes: sudes sub
aquā, Cs.: asseres in terrā
defigebantur, Cs.: sicam in corpore: cultrum in
corde, L.: telluri hastas, V.: terrae defigitur arbos, V.—To fix, fasten, render immovable:
defixa caelo sidera, H.: aciem in
his vestigiis, Ta.: defixa relinquit aratra,
at rest, V. — Fig., to fix, fasten, centre: alqd in
mentibus vestris: omnia rei p. subsidia in hoc iudicio
defixa.—To turn intently, fix, direct: in cuius
possessiones oculos: Aeneas defixus lumina, V.: in eo
mentem: curas in rei p. salute: Libyae defixit lumina regnis, V.: defixi ora tenebant, in rapt attention, V.—To strike
motionless, stupefy, astound, astonish: omnīs admi
ratione, L.: omnium animos, L.: silentio defixi, L.: ob metum
defixus, Ta.: Defixis oculis torpet, H.
— To declare unalterably: quae augur vitiosa
defixerit.—To bewitch, enchant: nomina
cerā, O.
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