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English
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
Verb
abacinate (third-person singular simple present abacinates, present participle abacinating, simple past and past participle abacinated)
- (transitive, rare) To blind by holding a red-hot metal rod or plate before the eyes
1905, James M. Ludlow, Sir Raoul, page 233:"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."
1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold, page 196:Their straining eyes abacinated by the cup of terror, their throats stopped, their powers dead within them, they hung breathless, motionless.
1986, Jeff Hanneman (lyrics and music), “Angel of Death”, in Reign in Blood, performed by Slayer:Abacinate, eyes that bleed, praying for the end of your wide awake nightmare.
1999, Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans, →ISBN, page 220:This chiasmic image of the subject's imperviousness suggests a sensory deprivation beyond sublimity, like that of abacinated anti-epistemology.
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Latin
Verb
abacināte
- second-person plural present active imperative of abacinō