Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To emasculate; castrate.
- Emasculated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
castrate . - verb To render
weak orunmanly .
Etymologies
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From Latin ēvirātus, perfect passive participle of ēvirō ("I emasculate"), from ē ("out of") + vir ("man").
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Examples
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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 Doctor Glaston! so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing!
Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819
pavonine commented on the word evirate
To emasculate; to dispossess of manhood.
November 20, 2007