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gelded, ppl. a.|ˈgɛldɪd|
Also gelt.
[f. geld v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Of a person or animal: Castrated. † gelded-man, a eunuch.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 173 Iulianus put out of his court eunochos, gilded men, barboures and cokes. c1475Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 758/24 Hec nefrenda, a geldyd sow. 1526Tindale Acts viii. 34 The gelded man answered Philip. 1553Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 28 No gelded person..shuld be made a priest. 1618Bolton Florus iv. ii. 278 By the counsel of gelded men. 1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian 17 Gelded priests. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. ii. 24 All the Qualification that St. Philip required of the guelded Blackamore.
b. Of meat: Derived from castrated animals.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. i. (1651) 66 All gelded meats in every species are held best.
2. in transf. and fig. uses of the vb.
1599Marston Sco. Villanie ii. v. 196 His halfe-dozen gelded vicaries. 1611Florio, Castrato,..a kind of well⁓husked, cleansed or gelded wheat.
†3. gelded satyrion, a kind of Orchis. Obs.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. civ. 173 Gelded Satyrion hath leaues with nerues and sinewes like to those of Daffodil. |