masculizing

Verb

masculize (third-person singular simple present masculizes, present participle masculizing, simple past and past participle masculized)

1. (rare) To masculinize.
   • Some ancient physicians, Bartholin, Perrault, Sturm, and, later Grasmeyer, have thought that, even without fecundation, the marriage relation suffices, after a time, to masculize woman.1859, Jules Michelet, “Notes and Explanations”, in J.W. Palmer, transl., Love, New York, N.Y.: Rudd & Carleton, translation of L'Amour, page 342