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Definition of evirate in English: evirateverb ˈɛːvɪreɪtˈiːvɪreɪt [with object]rare 1Castrate (a man or male animal). Example sentencesExamples - At the age of eighteen he evirated himself, thus hoping to open the pathway to Christian perfection.
- Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
- The unmoved Bottai notes that one of the bodies shows 'an enormous, bloodied gash: they have evirated him'.
- In breeding, some evirate the foal while sucking.
- The mob had attempted to mutilate and evirate the manly figure
Synonyms neuter, geld, cut, emasculate, desex, sterilize, unman, remove the testicles of - 1.1 Deprive (a man) of his male role or identity; emasculate.
Example sentencesExamples - He did not know that a man's character dwindles into pusillanimity and cowardice, when, he is evirated by an operation totally different.
- Their minds are debased and evirated by effeminacy, lasciviousness, and fondness for loose pleasures.
Origin Early 17th century: from Latin evirat-, from the verb evirare (from e-, expressing a change of state, + vir 'man'): see -ate3. |