† eunuchatev.
Obsolete.
transitive. To make a eunuch of, castrate; to deprive of virility or generative power.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. iv. 113 To eunuchate or castrate themselves. View more context for this quotation
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. vii. 115 That Camphire Eunuchates or [printed or Eunuchates] begets in men an impotency unto venery, observation will hardly confirm.
1721–1800 in Bailey ; hence in Ash , etc.
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