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Emasculate a. World English Historical Dictionary

Emasculate a. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1897, rev. 2025. Emasculate a. [ad. L. ēmasculāt-us, pa. pple. of ēmasculāre: see next.] = EMASCULATED. a. Castrated, deprived of virility. In lit. sense chiefly quasi-sb.

1 1886.  Homilet. Rev., Nov., 403. The kadeshim or emasculates.

2   b.  fig. Unmanly, deprived of vigor; weak, effeminate.

3 1636.  H. Sydenham, Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637), 259. Of Spirits emasculate and sicke.

4 1752.  Smart, Hop Garden. With love Emasculate, and wine.

5 1849.  Robertson, Serm., Ser. I. vi. 90. Too emasculate to trudge through cold and rain.

6 1867.  Contemp. Rev., VI. 169. German architecture is at once eclectic, scholarly, and emasculate.

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