Acupunctuation vs Acupunctuate - What's the difference?
acupunctuation | acupunctuate | Derived terms |
(rare) To pierce with a needle; to treat with acupuncture.
*{{quote-book, year=1830, author=George Tate, title=A Treatise on Hysteria, page=72, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=ilXAFoFg1-8C&pg=PA72
, passage=In the course of these months she was bled, leeched, acupunctuated ,
*{{quote-news, year=1865, author=, title=A Basque Pastorale, work=Macmillan's Magazine, volume=65, issue=9, page=251, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?pg=PA251&id=8j0FAAAAQAAJ
, passage=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 ." }}
*{{quote-journal, year=1975, journal=The American Scholar, page=133, volume=44
, passage=Who do you suppose get acupunctuated better, a Tibetan yak-herd or Chairman Mao?}}
Acupunctuate is a derived term of acupunctuation.
In lang=en terms the difference between acupunctuation and acupunctuate
is that acupunctuation is a pricking with or as if with a needle; the practice of acupuncture while acupunctuate is to pierce with a needle; to treat with acupuncture.As a noun acupunctuation
is a pricking with or as if with a needle; the practice of acupuncture.As a verb acupunctuate is
to pierce with a needle; to treat with acupuncture.acupunctuate
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