† excecateadj.

Etymology: < Latin excæcātus blinded: see excecate v.

Obsolete.

Blinded, deprived of sight (in quots. figurative). Chiefly as past participle.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind > blinded

excecate?1520

excecated?1550

blinded1595

struck-blind?1611

bissoneda1640

occaecated1661

?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth ii. f. 6^v Man..is excecate by ambicion and desyre of lordeshyp.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. SSSvi If the Iewes dyd slee hym, they shulde be excecat & blynded, and so lese the true feyth.

1534 Prymer in Eng. sig. M.viij^v Lyghten our myndes execate. O lorde, our consolation.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

† excecatev.

Forms: Also 1500s execate, 1600s excæcate.

Etymology: < Latin excaecāt- participial stem of excaecāre to make blind, < ex- (see ex- prefix¹) + caecus blind.

Obsolete.

transitive. To make blind, to blind. literal and figurative.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > blind

blendc888

forblendc1175

blindfoldc1320

to put out a person's eyesc1325

blinda1400

dark?c1400

darken?a1425

quenchc1450

excecate?1540

stark blind1574

beblind1575

douta1616

unsight?1615

benight1621

emblind1631

occaecate1664

?1540 in Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII (1548) f. ccxlvj That the people of Scotlande..is vtterly execated and blinded.

1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Excæcate, to make blinde.

1665 G. Havers tr. P. della Valle Trav. E. India 29 He caus'd his eyes to be sew'd up..to the end to deprive him of sight without excœcating him.

1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Excecate.

Derivatives

exˈcecated adj.

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