Meaning of abacinate | Babel Free

Definitions

To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes

rare, transitive

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Examples

“"You young scapegrace," said Dandolo, "I will myself abacinate you — in the Venetian way." "How's that?" "Blind your eyes with the glare, not of hot irons, but of new ducats. Count⟳ your pile."”

“Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.”

“Abacinate, eyes that bleed⟳, praying for the end⟳ of your wide awake⟳ nightmare.”

“This chiasmic image of the subject's imperviousness suggests a sensory deprivation beyond sublimity, like⟳ that of abacinated anti-epistemology.”

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