Definition of Lancinate

1. Adjective. Painful as if caused by a sharp instrument. "Lancinating pain"

Exact synonyms: Cutting, Keen, Knifelike, Lancinating, Piercing, Stabbing
Similar to: Sharp

Definition of Lancinate

1. v. t. To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.

Definition of Lancinate

1. Verb. To pierce or stab (as with a lance), to lance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lancinate

1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lancinate

lancet window
lanceted
lancetfish
lancetfishes
lanceth
lancets
lancewood
lancewood tree
lancewoods
lanch
lanched
lanches
lanching
lanciers
lanciform
lancinate (current term)
lancinated
lancinates
lancinating
lancination
lancinations
lancing
land
land(a)
land-grant
land-office business
land-poor
land agent
land ahoy
land area

Literary usage of Lancinate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nervous and Mental Diseases by Archibald Church, Frederick Peterson (1914)
"The same is true of coryza, which, like parotitis, is sometimes undoubtedly due to the lancinate micrococcus. A most marked relationship exists between ..."

2. Pharmaceutical Botany by Heber Wilkinson Youngken, Francis Edward Stewart (1914)
"... and a succulent, two-valved one-celled fruit with a solitary seed usually covered by a lancinate aril. M. fragrans, a handsome tree, 20 to 30 feet high, ..."

3. Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Classified and Arranged So as to by Peter Mark Roget (1916)
"... 378 ; pierce, lancinate, cut. wring, harrow, torment, torture; yf to the -rack, - question ; break on tb wheel, rack, scarify; cruci-ate, -fy; ..."

4. The Works of the Right Reverend Joseph Hall by Joseph Hall, Philip Wynter (1863)
"Yet all this task was tolerable in respect of the cruel piety of those men that stuck not to tew and lancinate their bodies ; like that ..."

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