excecate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin excaecātus, perfect passive participle of excaecō (“to blind”), from ex- (denoting privation) + caecō (“to blind”), from caecus (“blind”).
Verb[edit]
excecate (third-person singular simple present excecates, present participle excecating, simple past and past participle excecated)
- (obsolete) To blind.
- 1630, James Sharpe, The Triall of the Protestant Priuate Spirit:
- God doth worke inwardly in the hearts of sinners, doth excecate and obdurate the minds of men
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References[edit]
- “excecate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.