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eunuchates

eunuchates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eunuchate.

Meaning of eunuchate

Verb

eunuchate (third-person singular simple present eunuchates, present participle eunuchating, simple past and past participle eunuchated)

  1. (dated, transitive) To make a eunuch of; to castrate (a man).
    • That camphire eunuchates or begets in men an impotency unto venery, observation will hardly confirm; and we have found it to fail in cocks and hens, though given for many daies; which was a more favourable triall then that of Scaliger, when he gave it unto a bitch that was proud.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia epidemica

Questions about eunuchates

What is eunuchates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Eunuchates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of eunuchate.

Words near eunuchates in the dictionary

  1. eunuch
  2. eunuch flute
  3. eunuch flutes
  4. eunuchate
  5. eunuchated
  6. eunuchates
  7. eunuchating
  8. eunuchdom
  9. eunuched
  10. eunuching
  11. eunuchise

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