asexualizev.

Brit.

/(ˌ)eɪˈsɛkʃʊəlʌɪz/,

/(ˌ)eɪˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)lʌɪz/,

/(ˌ)eɪˈsɛksjʊ(ə)lʌɪz/, U.S.

/(ˌ)eɪˈsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlaɪz/

Forms: 1800s– asexualize, 1900s– asexualise.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: a- prefix⁶, sexual adj., -ize suffix.

Etymology: < a- prefix⁶ + sexual adj. + -ize suffix, perhaps originally after sexualize v. Compare asexual adj. Compare also earlier desexualize v.

1. transitive. U.S. To render (a person) sterile or sexually impotent, usually by forced sterilization or castration. Now chiefly historical.

ΚΠ

1888 Med. News 31 Mar. 343/2 This proposition to asexualize all constitutionally depraved convicts.

1897 Med. Counselor Apr. 113 There is before the Michigan Legislature a bill to asexualize all inmates of the Michigan Home for Feeble Minded and Epileptics.

1911 Hahnemannian Monthly May 370 There are certain cases of gonorrheal infection, double attack of epididymitis, which asexualise the possessor without the necessity for any surgical procedure.

1999 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 22 Mar. Surgical castration also could be imposed if a person stops taking chemicals designed to asexualize him and commits a second offense.

2009 Med. Anthropol. Q. 23 504/1 So-called sexual perverts, chronic masturbators, and homosexuals, were castrated, or asexualized, for therapeutic reasons.

a. transitive. To render or treat as neither masculine nor feminine; to deprive of characteristics, attributes, or qualities conventionally associated with a particular sex or gender.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > sex and gender > [verb (transitive)] > deprive of sex or gender

unsexa1616

desexualize1863

desex1889

asexualize1914

degender1965

1914 Eng. Rev. Mar. 579 Puck must be a woman... You cannot asexualise poetry on the stage.

1975 Ethics 85 247 Rather than desexualize or asexualize our world through technology..we need to change social and legal systems which discriminate irrelevantly on the basis of sex.

2017 D. Vaid in W. T. Pink & G. W. Noblit Second Internat. Handbk. Urban Educ. I. xxi. 361 When you are dealing with factory level people, you have to asexualise yourself, so you can't be like..‘I am a..delicate little petal’.

b. transitive. To remove or minimize the erotic character, associations, or appeal of.

ΚΠ

1929 L. Brink tr. W. Stekel Sadism & Masochism II. xvi. 229 Father and sister seem to him on such days as sexual beings, while he tries at other times to asexualize them.

1979 R. Nahas & M. Turley New Couple 25 Ellen at least superficially has asexualized herself. Her diffident, unassuming, and pleasant manner is comfortable and safe to be around, especially for the gay man who does not want a friendly association with a woman to lead to a sexual showdown.

2016 J. Alaniz in B. Fraser Cultures of Representation 120 Anton..exhibits no sex drive, in a cultural context that has traditionally infantilised and asexualised the disabled.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	asexualize
释义	asexualizev. Brit. /(ˌ)eɪˈsɛkʃʊəlʌɪz/, /(ˌ)eɪˈsɛkʃ(ᵿ)lʌɪz/, /(ˌ)eɪˈsɛksjʊ(ə)lʌɪz/, U.S. /(ˌ)eɪˈsɛkʃ(əw)əˌlaɪz/ Forms: 1800s– asexualize, 1900s– asexualise. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: a- prefix⁶, sexual adj., -ize suffix. Etymology: < a- prefix⁶ + sexual adj. + -ize suffix, perhaps originally after sexualize v. Compare asexual adj. Compare also earlier desexualize v. 1. transitive. U.S. To render (a person) sterile or sexually impotent, usually by forced sterilization or castration. Now chiefly historical. ΚΠ 1888 Med. News 31 Mar. 343/2 This proposition to asexualize all constitutionally depraved convicts. 1897 Med. Counselor Apr. 113 There is before the Michigan Legislature a bill to asexualize all inmates of the Michigan Home for Feeble Minded and Epileptics. 1911 Hahnemannian Monthly May 370 There are certain cases of gonorrheal infection, double attack of epididymitis, which asexualise the possessor without the necessity for any surgical procedure. 1999 Associated Press State & Local Wire (Nexis) 22 Mar. Surgical castration also could be imposed if a person stops taking chemicals designed to asexualize him and commits a second offense. 2009 Med. Anthropol. Q. 23 504/1 So-called sexual perverts, chronic masturbators, and homosexuals, were castrated, or asexualized, for therapeutic reasons. 2. a. transitive. To render or treat as neither masculine nor feminine; to deprive of characteristics, attributes, or qualities conventionally associated with a particular sex or gender. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > [verb (transitive)] > deprive of sex or gender unsexa1616 desexualize1863 desex1889 asexualize1914 degender1965 1914 Eng. Rev. Mar. 579 Puck must be a woman... You cannot asexualise poetry on the stage. 1975 Ethics 85 247 Rather than desexualize or asexualize our world through technology..we need to change social and legal systems which discriminate irrelevantly on the basis of sex. 2017 D. Vaid in W. T. Pink & G. W. Noblit Second Internat. Handbk. Urban Educ. I. xxi. 361 When you are dealing with factory level people, you have to asexualise yourself, so you can't be like..‘I am a..delicate little petal’. b. transitive. To remove or minimize the erotic character, associations, or appeal of. ΚΠ 1929 L. Brink tr. W. Stekel Sadism & Masochism II. xvi. 229 Father and sister seem to him on such days as sexual beings, while he tries at other times to asexualize them. 1979 R. Nahas & M. Turley New Couple 25 Ellen at least superficially has asexualized herself. Her diffident, unassuming, and pleasant manner is comfortable and safe to be around, especially for the gay man who does not want a friendly association with a woman to lead to a sexual showdown. 2016 J. Alaniz in B. Fraser Cultures of Representation 120 Anton..exhibits no sex drive, in a cultural context that has traditionally infantilised and asexualised the disabled. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1888
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