evirate
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Latin ēvirātus, perfect passive participle of ēvirō (“I emasculate”), from ē (“out of”) + vir (“man”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
evirate (third-person singular simple present evirates, present participle evirating, simple past and past participle evirated)
- To castrate.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2:
- Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
- 1846, Walter Savage Landor, edited by J. Forster, The works of Walter Savage Landor:
- 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!
- To render weak or unmanly.
Italian[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
Verb[edit]
evirate
- inflection of evirare:
Etymology 2[edit]
Participle[edit]
evirate f pl
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
ēvirāte