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Emasculate   Listen
verb
Emasculate  v. t.  (past & past part. emasculated; pres. part. emasculating)  
1.
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
2.
To deprive of masculine vigor or spirit; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness. "Luxury had not emasculated their minds."





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"Emasculate" Quotes from Famous Books



... it is necessary to emasculate a flower on the plant chosen to be the female parent. For this purpose a young flower must be taken in which the anthers have not yet burst. The keel is depressed, and the stamens bearing the anthers are removed at their base by a {188} pair of fine forceps. ...
— Mendelism - Third Edition • Reginald Crundall Punnett
... veins," said Christophe. "And on top of that, all sorts of Christian ideas!... Your religious education in France is reduced to the Catechism: the emasculate Gospel, the tame, boneless New Testament.... Humanitarian clap-trap, always tearful.... And the Revolution, Jean-Jacques, Robespierre, '48, and, on top of that, the Jews!... Take a dose of the ...
— Jean Christophe: In Paris - The Market-Place, Antoinette, The House • Romain Rolland
... palatable. For as the riotous, not the temperate, use to cut cocks and geld pigs, to make their flesh tender and delicious, even against Nature; just so (if we may use a metaphor, says he) those that strain wine geld and emasculate it, whilst their squeamish stomachs will neither suffer them to drink pure wine, nor their intemperance to drink moderately. Therefore they make use of this expedient, to the end that it may render the desire they have of drinking plentifully more excusable. So they take all the strength from the ...
— Essays and Miscellanies - The Complete Works Volume 3 • Plutarch


Words linked to "Emasculate" :   geld, sterilise, sissyish, fix, demasculinize, cissy, demasculinise, effeminate, unsex, sterilize, epicene, caponise, desexualise, sissy, emasculation, sissified, cut, castrate, unmanlike


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