evirateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɛvɪɹeɪt/

動詞

evirate (三人称単数 現在形 evirates, 現在分詞 evirating, 過去形および過去分詞形 evirated)

1. To castrate.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.2:

     Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.

   • 1846, Walter Savage Landor, J. Forster (editor), The works of Walter Savage Landor,

     The pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate him (poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy), so apostolic and desperate a doctor is Dr. Glaston, — so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing!

2. To render weak or unmanly.

Latin

動詞

ēvirāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of ēvirō