arch. [f. prec.]
1. trans. To make a carbonado of; to score across and broil or grill.
1611. Shaks., Wint. T., IV. iv. 268. How she long’d to eate Adders heads, and Toads carbonado’d.
c. 1630. Jackson, Creed, IV. cvii. Wks. 1844, III. 105. Having … lastly, his raw bulk broiled or carbonadoed quick.
1679. Hist. Jetzer, 5. The colour of his face was as if it had been newly Carbanadoed, and laid upon a Gridiron.
1820. Scott, Monast., xvi. On a level with Richard Cœur-de-Lion, when he ate up the head of a Moor carbonadoed.
1823. [see CARBONARI].
fig. 1647. Ward, Simp. Cobler, 62. Whose heart hath been long carbonado’d … in flames of affection towards you.
1672. R. Wild, Poet. Licent., 27.
| Raw men you were, raw still you are, and I | |
| Do scarce believe you’l carbonado’d die. |
b. quasi-intr. (from elliptic use of gerund).
1675. J. Smith, Chr. Relig. App., II. 7. His Arm not to shrug, while it was carbonadoing, with that live Coal that fell into his Sleeve.
1863. Thornbury, True as Steel, III. 2. While some venison stakes, dipped in wine and spiced, were carbonadoing [printed carbanadoing] at a fire.
2. transf. To cut, slash, hack.
1596. Nashe, Saffron Walden, 20. I am the man will deliuer him to thee to be scotcht and carbonadoed.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. ii. 41. Draw, you Rogue, or Ile so carbonado your shanks.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 259. Barbarous Gallants … slash and carbonado their Bodies.
1748. Smollett, Rod. Rand. (1812), I. 58. I would flea him, carbonado him.
1832. W. Irving, Alhambra, II. 166. He … has been … so cut up and carbonadoed that he is a kind of walking monument of the troubles of Spain.
Carbonadoed ppl. a., Carbonadoing vbl. sb.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, IV. v. 107. Your carbinado’d face.
1615. Markham, Eng. Housew., II. ii. (1668), 78. The manner of carbonadoing.
1635. Quarles, Embl., I. v. (1718), 21. To broil the carbonado’d hearts of men.
1655. Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., II. 223. Satan’s plundering him of his estate … carbonadoing (as I may say) his body with sores and boiles (which were as so many deep slashes in his flesh).
