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eunuchize, v.|ˈjuːnəkaɪz|
Also 7 eunuchise.
[f. eunuch n. + -ize.]
trans. To reduce to the condition of a eunuch; to emasculate; lit. and fig.
1632Brome Novella iv. ii, If I worship any of 'hem more..let me be eunuchiz'd. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 99 The King having at that instant, a Knife in his hand, gives it the poore Father and bids him Eunuchize him. 1847Medwin Life Shelley II. 209 Moore..asterized and eunuchized his [Byron's] pages so barbarously. 1887tr. V. Hehn's Wanderings Plants & Anim. 79 Apollonius said that the emperor spared men but eunuchized the earth. |