evirate

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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