"acupunctuate" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1830, George Tate, A Treatise on Hysteria, page 72:",
          "text": "In the course of these months she was bled, leeched, acupunctuated, […].",
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          "ref": "1865, “A Basque Pastorale”, in Macmillan's Magazine, volume 65, number 9, page 251:",
          "text": "Indeed, a lady quietly remarked to the writer, with that exquisite sweet malice wherewith French ladies so much delight to acu-punctuate their English sisters, \"I have never seen any English lady handle her fan nearly so gracefully as that Basque boy does; they ALWAYS make themselves in a heat by blowing so hard, but look at him.\"",
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          "ref": "1975, The American Scholar, volume 44, page 133:",
          "text": "Who do you suppose get acupunctuated better, a Tibetan yak-herd or Chairman Mao?",
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        "To pierce with a needle; to treat with acupuncture."
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        "(rare) To pierce with a needle; to treat with acupuncture."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "acupuncture"
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          "word": "acu-punctuate"
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  "word": "acupunctuate"
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      "form": "acupunctuated",
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      "form": "acupunctuated",
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