Obs. [f. as prec. + -ATION: cf. starvation.] = BLINDING, BLIND sb. 4–6.
1588. J. Harvey, Discoursive Probl., 52. The pretended cloke of Incubus, or such like glozing blindation.
1617. Collins, Def. Bp. Ely, II. vii. 260. That’s the blindation.
a. 1734. North, Exam., I. iii. ¶ 106. 196. These Authors … build up Blindations before one of the foulest Knots of Inquiry that ever defiled the Sun’s Light.
