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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) 1123 Mee as my Self: Hermaphrodite in minde, I am (at-once) Male, Female, Neuter.

1646 H. Mill 2nd Pt. Nights Search xxi. 129 A monstrous woman! to the guard we'l send her, A parboild frow, and of the neuter gender.

1763 C. Churchill Rosciad (ed. 8) 8 A Motley Figure..to ascertain whose sex Twelve sage impannell'd Matrons would perplex, Nor Male, nor Female; Neither, and yet both; Of Neuter Gender, tho' of Irish growth.

1770 Oxf. Mag. June 228/2 There is indeed a kind of animal, neither male nor female, a thing of the neuter gender, lately started up amongst us. It is called a Macaroni.

1815 E. Quillinan Monthermer ii. 40 A more than gentleman and less than man. And yet where'er this neuter gender went..sure was It to find Friends ever warm, and beauties ever kind.

1961 W. Percy Moviegoer ii. x. 104 She labels her date a neuter person.

1982 P. Mann Eye of Queen 72 The Pe-Ellians were then, and remain today, in my mind, the pre-eminent example of the neuter gender, being neither male nor female but the equal of either.

1991 B. Aldiss Frankenstein Unbound 54 The hand which had dispatched William had been neither a female hand nor a male one, but the hand of a terrible neuter thing!

1995 A. Livia tr. L. Delarue-Mardrus Angel & Perverts xii. 183 I was already more than chaste, being neuter.