What does evirate mean?
Evirate means To castrate..
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/ˈɛvɪɹeɪt/ · verb
To castrate..
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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Evirate means To castrate..
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Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
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