evirate
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ēvirātus, perfect passive participle of ēvirō (“I emasculate”), from ē (“out of”) + vir (“man”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
evirate (third-person singular simple present evirates, present participle evirating, simple past and past participle evirated)
- To castrate.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and Iames 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, J. Forster (editor), 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
Verb
evirate
- second-person plural present indicative of evirare
- second-person plural imperative of evirare
- feminine plural of evirato
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
(deprecated template usage) ēvirāte