Eunuchate

Quick meaning: Eunuchate is a verb meaning (transitive, dated) To make a eunuch of; to castrate (a man).

Meaning

(transitive, dated) To make a eunuch of; to castrate (a man).

Example Sentences

I have enveavored to show, neither do they condemn Polygamy, Eunuchating, the Metempsychosis, and I might have added, the atrocious cruelties of the ancient Circus or Amphetheater, though St. Paul obtains some of his most striking Metaphors from that source.

That camphire eunuchates or begets in men an impotency unto venery, observation will hardly confirm; and we have found it to fail in cocks and hens, though given for many daies; which was a more favourable triall then that of Scaliger, when he gave it unto a bitch that was proud.

The first draft's definition of indecency, which would have eunuchated literature entirely, was changed to read: "the word 'indecent' shall be construed as including suggestive of, or inciting to sexual immorality or unnatural vice or likely in any other similar way to corrupt or deprave."

Word Forms

• eunuchates
• eunuchating
• eunuchated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eunuchize, eunuchise, uncastrate, unman, unsex, emasculate.

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