Meanings
present singular third person abacinates · participle present abacinating · participle past abacinated · past abacinated
- raretransitiveTo blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes
Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.
1986, Jeff Hanneman, “Angel of Death”, in Reign in Blood, performed by Slayer3 more 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."
1905, James M. Ludlow, Sir Raoul, page 233Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.
1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold, page 196This chiasmic image of the subject's imperviousness suggests a sensory deprivation beyond sublimity, like that of abacinated anti-epistemology.
1999, Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans, →ISBN, page 220
Origin
- Late Latinabacinātus
- Englishabacinate
From Late Latin abacinātus, perfect passive participle of abacinō; possibly formed from ab (“off”) + bacīnum (“a basin”) or bacīnus. Probably cognate with modern Italian abbacinare (“to dazzle”).
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Portuguese abacinar
- abacinarto blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes
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