| 释义 |
masculinize, v.|ˈmæskjʊlɪnaɪz|
[f. masculine a. + -ize.]
trans. a. To render masculine or more masculine in nature, form, or character.
1912Mme Moret tr. A. Moret's Kings & Gods Egypt i. 29 She even tried to change the very name she had received at her birth and to masculinise it by omitting the feminine ending. 1927C. C. Martindale Relig. of World 19 The first way in which Brahmă could be ‘thought’, was, as sufficiently ‘masculinised’ (Brahmā) to be a god, supreme, yet to that extent specified.
b. Biol. To induce male sexual characteristics in.
1924,1962[see feminize v. 2]. 1971Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 10 Dec. 21/3 The amount of androgen required for normal masculinizing of the brain is greater than that required to masculinize the genitalia.
Hence ˈmasculinized ppl. a., ˈmasculinizing ppl. a. and vbl. n.
1927Daily Express 28 Sept. 8/7 The second type of masculinised female is the politically-minded woman. 1928Sunday Express 19 Aug. 5 ‘The Cinderella Man’..was a masculinised version of the old story. 1936,1939[see androgen]. 1961M. F. A. Montagu Genetic Mechanisms in Human Dis. xii. 113 Completely masculinised genetic females are almost common, forming something like 1 in 40 of the masculine population. 1970Nature 3 Oct. 94/2 In the glow-worm Lampyris the apical cells of the testis produce a masculinizing hormone. |