Obs. [In sense 1 f. L. spīculāt-, ppl. stem of spīculāre to point; in sense 2 f. L. spīculum sharp point, arrow, ray, etc.]
1. trans. To sharpen to a point. rare–0.
1623. Cockeram, II. To make a sharp Point to a thing, spiculate.
2. To pierce or transfix. rare–1.
1834. Southey, Doctor, lxxxvii. (1848), 197. In those representations [in old almanacks] man … stood erect and naked, spiculated by emitted influences from the said signs.
