eunuchate

present singular third person eunuchates · participle present eunuchating · participle past eunuchated · past eunuchated

1. datedtransitiveTo make a eunuch of; to castrate (a man).

   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.

   1863, Vindex, Rattlesnakes and Copperheads: Or, Rhymes for the Times

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   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.

   1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica

   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."

   1938, Mary Cogan Bromage, “The Irish Literary Censorship”, in Quarterly Review: A Journal of University Perspectives, page 80