Abacinate

Quick meaning: Abacinate is a verb meaning (transitive, rare) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes.

Meaning

(transitive, rare) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

"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."

Word Forms

• abacinates
• abacinating
• abacinated

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