单词 | excecation |
释义 | excecationn. Obsolete or archaic. 1. The action of putting out the eyes; punishment by blinding; also, an instance of the same; the state or fact of being blinded. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [noun] > putting out eyes excecation1613 gouging1774 abacination1866 1613 S. Daniel Coll. Hist. Eng. 161 He committed these barbarous examples of cruelty by excæcations and miserable dismembering the people. 1678 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV 95 God..punished Elymas, the Sorcerer, with corporal Excecation. 1721–1800 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. 1827 H. Taylor Isaac Comnenus iii. v Death, Not excaecation, if the thought of that Calls up these looks of horror. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > emotional or spiritual blindness excecation1529 beast-blindness1801 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [noun] > emotional or spiritual blindness > making excecation1529 1529 J. Frith Pistle Christen Reader lxxvii. sig. Nvv This excecation..God hath sente into the world for synne. 1588 W. Allen Admon. to Nobility & People 26 The state of kinge Pharao his obduration and excecation in wilfull wickedness. 1622 H. Sydenham Serm. (1626) 30 God doth concurre to the excæcation and hardening both of the minde and heart. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions viii. 65 This Deceit and Excecation is a proper worke of Passion. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1529 |
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