Meaning of evirate | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To castrate.
2. To render weak or unmanly.

Equivalents

Examples

“Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.”

“The pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate him (poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy), so apostolic and desperate a doctor is Dr. Glaston, — so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing!”

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