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eunuchating

eunuchating is the present participle and gerund 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 eunuchating

What is eunuchating the present participle and gerund of?
Eunuchating is the present participle and gerund of eunuchate.

Words near eunuchating in the dictionary

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

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