deoculate

Meaning

Verb

To remove the eyes or their equivalent from

Origin

de-- + -oculo-; coined by Charles Lamb in a letter to William Wordsworth written in 1897: "Dorothy, I hear, has mounted spectacles; so deoculated two of your dearest relations in life. "

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