evirate
/ˈiːvɪreɪt
/ /ˈɛːvɪreɪt /verb [with object] rare
1Castrate (a man or male animal).At the age of eighteen he evirated himself, thus hoping to open the pathway to Christian perfection....
- Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
- The unmoved Bottai notes that one of the bodies shows 'an enormous, bloodied gash: they have evirated him'.
1.1Deprive (a man) of his male role or identity; emasculate.Their minds are debased and evirated by effeminacy, lasciviousness, and fondness for loose pleasures....
- He did not know that a man's character dwindles into pusillanimity and cowardice, when, he is evirated by an operation totally different.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin evirat-, from the verb evirare (from e-, expressing a change of state, + vir 'man'): see -ate3.