English Explanatory Dictionary

deoculate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To remove the eyes or their equivalent from (someone).

Word forms

deoculate deoculates deoculating deoculated

Etymology

From de- + oculo- + -ate (verb-forming suffix); coined by Charles Lamb in a letter to William Wordsworth written in 1816: "Dorothy, I hear, has mounted spectacles; so deoculated two of your dearest relations in life. ".

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