acupunctuate
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin acus (“needle”) + punctuate.
Verb
[edit]acupunctuate (third-person singular simple present acupunctuates, present participle acupunctuating, simple past and past participle acupunctuated)
- (rare) To pierce with a needle; to treat with acupuncture.
- 1830, George Tate, A Treatise on Hysteria, page 72:
- In the course of these months she was bled, leeched, acupunctuated, […] .
- 1865, “A Basque Pastorale”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 65, number 9, page 251:
- Indeed, a lady quietly remarked to the writer, with that exquisite sweet malice wherewith French ladies so much delight to acu-punctuate their English sisters, "I have never seen any English lady handle her fan nearly so gracefully as that Basque boy does; they ALWAYS make themselves in a heat by blowing so hard, but look at him."
- 1975, The American Scholar[1], volume 44, page 133:
- Who do you suppose get acupunctuated better, a Tibetan yak-herd or Chairman Mao?