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