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/əbˈæsɪneɪt/ · verb
(transitive, rare) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes.
"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.
Use abacinate when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Abacinate means (transitive, rare) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes.
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"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."
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