acupunctuateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Latin acus (“needle”) + punctuate.

動詞

acupunctuate (三人称単数 現在形 acupunctuates, 現在分詞 acupunctuating, 過去形および過去分詞形 acupunctuated)

1. (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?