evirate

present singular third person evirates · participle present evirating · participle past evirated · past evirated

1. To castrate.

   Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.

   1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 3, member 2

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   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!

   1846, Walter Savage Landor, edited by J. Forster, The works of Walter Savage Landor

2. To render weak or unmanly.