evirate

From Latin ēvirātus, perfect passive participle of ēvirō (“I emasculate”), from ē (“out of”) + vir (“man”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɛvɪɹeɪt/

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

1. To castrate.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 3, member 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.

evirate

1. second-person plural present indicative of evirare
2. second-person plural imperative of evirare
3. feminine plural of evirato

• evitare
• eviterà
• riavete
• vietare
• vieterà

ēvirāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of ēvirō