Verb

(head)

(abacinate)

Verb

(abacinat)

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

* {{quote-book, 1905, James M. Ludlow, Sir Raoul, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=kXEmmDGmYdEC&q=%22not+of+hot+irons+but%22, page=233

, passage="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."}}

* {{quote-book, 1945, Robert Hardy Andrews, Burning Gold, url=http://books.google.com/books?id=v-58AAAAMAAJ, page=196

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

* {{quote-book, 1999, Srinivas Aravamudan, Tropicopolitans, page=220, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=17oU9nBX_N8C&pg=PA220, isbn=082232315X

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