occecation

From Latin occaecatio, from occaecare (“to make blind”), from ob + caecare (“to blind”), from caecus (“blind”).

• IPA^(key): /ˌɒksɪˈkeɪʃən/

occecation (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The act of making blind

   Synonym: blinding

2. The state of being blind.
   • 17th century, Joseph Hall, Meditations (possibly?)

     It is an addition to the misery of this inward occecation.

   Synonym: blindness

• “occecation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.