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evirates

evirates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of evirate.

Meaning of evirate

Verb

evirate (third-person singular simple present evirates, present participle evirating, simple past and past participle evirated)

  1. To castrate.
    • Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...
  2. To render weak or unmanly.

Questions about evirates

What is evirates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Evirates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of evirate.

Words near evirates in the dictionary

  1. Evington
  2. eviphidid
  3. eviphidids
  4. evirate
  5. evirated
  6. evirates
  7. evirating
  8. eviration
  9. Eviron
  10. Evis
  11. evisa

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