stone-blindadj.n.
/ˌstəʊnˈblʌɪnd/, U.S. /ˈstoʊnˈblaɪnd/ Blind as a stone; completely blind.† c. as n. = stone-blindness n. at Derivatives. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
a. literal.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind
star-blindeOE
bissonc950
blind-bornc975
blindc1000
darkOE
purblinda1325
sightlessa1325
start blinda1387
stark blinda1425
stone-blindc1480
beetle-blind1556
beetle1566
eyeless?1570
purblinded1572
high-gravel-blind1600
not-seeing?1602
kind-blind1608
bat-blind1609
unseeing1609
blindful1621
winking-eyed1621
lamplessa1625
deocular1632
lightless1638
bat-eyed1656
stock-blind1675
duncha1692
gazelessa1819
visionlessa1821
blind-eyed1887
stone-eyed1890
unsighted1983
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 420 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 234 Sic a drynk þat quha-euire of It cane taste, he worde stane-blynde.
1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching sig. A4v I haue seen men ston-blind offer to lay bets.
1742 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 42 264 The famous Statuary Ganibasius,..though stone~blind, could by Feeling make a Statue in Clay.
1891 R. Kipling Light that Failed xiii. 249 Dick Heldar..has gone blind... He has been stone-blind for nearly two months.
b. figurative. (In quot. 1849 a humorous strengthening of blind adj. 10.)
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > intellectual ignorance > [adjective]
thestera900
thestria900
blindc1000
darkc1350
lightless?1406
obscurea1500
mistya1522
blinded1535
unilluminated1579
unlightened1587
stone-blind1596
endarkened1612
dark1628
benighted1637
unenlightened1650
bedarkened1655
unirradiated1792
darkened1856
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 128 Quha now, nocht stane blind,..wil nocht sinceirlie grant, the forme of Scotland..to be elegant?
1648 N. Ward To Parl. at Westm. 17 So stoneblinde, as not to see..worse in themselves.
1849 C. Dickens David Copperfield (1850) xxiii. 250 A little half-blind entry where you could see hardly anything, a little stone-blind pantry where you could see nothing at all.
1864 J. R. Lowell Rebellion in Writ. (1890) V. 119 In disputable matters, every man sees according to his prejudices, and is stone-blind to whatever he did not expect or did not mean to see.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness
blindnessc1000
blindheada1340
darknessa1382
unsightc1412
stone-blindc1500
cecity1528
ablepsy1616
anopsy1646
invision1646
anopsia1842
sightlessness1847
stone-blindness1868
c1500 Rowlis Cursing 61 in Laing Anc. Poet. Scot. The stane-wring, stane and stane blind.
Derivatives
stone-blindness n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness
blindnessc1000
blindheada1340
darknessa1382
unsightc1412
stone-blindc1500
cecity1528
ablepsy1616
anopsy1646
invision1646
anopsia1842
sightlessness1847
stone-blindness1868
1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xiii. 345 Laud's stone-blindness to the signs of the times.
1870 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David I. Ps. xxiv. 4 Stone-blindness in the eyes arises from stone in the heart.
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