rare. [f. SPECTACLE sb.1]
1. trans. To scrutinize through spectacles.
a. 1734. North, Lives (1826), III. 131. The barons, each one after another, spectacled it over and over, and scarce believed their own eyes.
1888. Murdoch, Readings, Ser. II. 47. Oh, ye may spectacle me as much as ye like, my fine man.
2. To provide with spectacles.
1880. Sat. Rev., No. 1295. 235. Of late years the practice of putting children into spectacles has increased with alarming rapidity…. Spectacling them may be a wholesome preventive.
