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(chiefly medicine) Of or relating to the Skoptsy, a historical Russian sect known for practising castration and mastectomy, or the obsessional, gender dysphoric mentality thereof..
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Skoptic means (chiefly medicine) Of or relating to the Skoptsy, a historical Russian sect known for practising castration and mastectomy, or the obsessional, gender dysphoric mentality thereof..
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