acupunctuate

present singular third person acupunctuates · participle present acupunctuating · participle past acupunctuated · past acupunctuated · alternative acu-punctuate

1. rareTo pierce with a needle; to treat with acupuncture.

   In the course of these months she was bled, leeched, acupunctuated, […].

   1830, George Tate, A Treatise on Hysteria, page 72

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   Indeed, a lady quietly remarked to the writer, with that exquisite sweet malice wherewith French ladies so much delight to acu-punctuate their English sisters, "I have never seen any English lady handle her fan nearly so gracefully as that Basque boy does; they ALWAYS make themselves in a heat by blowing so hard, but look at him."

   1865, “A Basque Pastorale”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 65, number 9, page 251

   Who do you suppose get acupunctuated better, a Tibetan yak-herd or Chairman Mao?

   1975, The American Scholar, volume 44, page 133