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monoculous, a.|məˈnɒkjʊləs|
[f. L. monocul-us (see monoculus) + -ous.]
One-eyed.
1656Blount Glossogr., Monocular, Monosculous [sic], that hath but one eye, one ey'd. a1661Fuller Worthies, Carnarvonsh. (1662) iv. 30 He telleth us also of Monoculous Fishes. 1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 129 We judge truth to be circumscrib'd by the confines of our belief,..and..repute all the rest of the world Monoculous. 1785Gent. Mag. LV. i. 267 note, But Polypheme surely was monoculous. 1861F. Hall in Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal XXX. 206 note, Every one-eyed man, in these parts, [is now known] as Holkar, from the monoculous Maráthá chieftain of that name. 1887O. W. Holmes in Atlantic Monthly LIX. 638 Dr. Knox was the monoculous Waterloo surgeon, with whom I remember breakfasting.
fig.1845Napier Conq. Scinde ii. ii. 283 Outram's monoculous diplomacy. |