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Neuter

noun

A gender that refers chiefly (but not exclusively) to inanimate objects (neither masculine nor feminine).

verb

Remove the ovaries of. Synonyms: alter, castrate, spay.

adjective

Of grammatical gender. Antonyms: feminine, masculine.

Having no or imperfectly developed or nonfunctional sex organs. Synonym: sexless.

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... involved or half as complete; and a person not thoroughly acquainted with the qualities and parts of this wonderful apparatus will prove a tormenting executioner, not a healing physician, to the sufferer. Be patient, milady, the physician at the bed of his patient is of the neuter gender—just as the ...

— Dr. Dumany's Wife • Mr Jkai

... out betwixt the protestors and resolutioners, Mr. Blair was at London, and afterward for the most part remained neuter in that affair; for which he was subjected to some hardships; yet he never omitted any proper place or occasion for the uniting and cementing these differences, none now in Scotland being more earnest in this than he and the learned and pious Mr. James Durham minister at ...

— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie

... ... PUSILLO] This substantival use of a neuter adjective is confined in classical Latin to the nominative ...

— Selections from Erasmus - Principally from his Epistles • Erasmus Roterodamus

... zer, ent, and weg: thus reissen to rend, verreissen to rend away, zerreissen to rend to pieces, entreissen to rend off or out of a thing, in the active sense: or schmelzen to melt—ver, zer, ent, schmelzen—and in like manner through all the verbs neuter and active. If you consider only how much we should feel the loss of the prefix be, as in bedropt, besprinkle, besot, especially in our poetical language, and then think that this same mode of composition is carried through all their simple and compound prepositions, and many of their adverbs; ...

— The Prose Works of William Wordsworth • William Wordsworth

... and the horizon was clear. The first on the look-out were, of course, the smugglers; they, and those on board the revenue cutter, were the only two interested parties—the yacht was neuter. ...

— The Pirate and The Three Cutters • Frederick Marryat

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