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BLINDING , a See also: form of punishment anciently See also: common in many lands, being inflicted on thieves, adulterers, perjurers and other criminals
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The inhabitants of See also: Apollonia (See also: Illyria) are said to have inflicted this See also: penalty on their " See also: watch " when found asleep at their posts
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It was resorted to by the See also: Roman emperors in their persecutions of the Christians
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The method of destroying , the sight varied
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Sometimes a mixture of lime and See also: vinegar, or barely scalding vinegar alone, was poured into the eyes
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Some-times a rope was See also: twisted round the victim's See also: head till the eyes started out of their sockets
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In the See also: middle ages the punishment seems to have been changed from See also: total See also: blindness to a permanent injury to the eyes, amounting, however, almost to blindness, produced by holding a red-hot iron dish or See also: basin before the face
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Under the See also: forest See also: laws of the Norman See also: kings of See also: England blinding was a common penalty
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See also: Shakespeare makes See also: King
See also: John
See also: order' his See also: nephew Arthur's eyes to be burnt out
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BLINDMAN'S-See also: BUFF (from an O
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Fr. word, buffe, a See also: blow, especially a blow on the cheek), a See also: game in which one player is blindfolded and made to catch and identify one of the others, who in sport push him about and " buffet " him
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