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adjective
castrated  adj.  Deprived of reproductive organs or sexual attributes.
Synonyms: altered, neutered, unsexed, fixed.






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"Castrated" Quotes from Famous Books



... the central government, or to gain a position there, they had either to get into close touch with one of the families of the gentry, or to try to approach the emperor directly. In the immediate entourage of the emperor, however, were the eunuchs. A good many members of the new class had themselves castrated after they had passed their state examination. Originally eunuchs were forbidden to acquire education. But soon the Ming emperors used the eunuchs as a tool to counteract the power of gentry cliques and thus to ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard

... und Baubo, 1896, pp. 50-51. Hahn is arguing for the religious origin of the plough, as a generative implement, drawn by a sacred and castrated animal, the ox. G. Herman, in his Genesis, develops the idea that modern religious rites have arisen out of sexual ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... would have played a joke upon a gelder named Trenche-couille, but, by the connivance of his host, was himself castrated. ...
— One Hundred Merrie And Delightsome Stories - Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles • Various

... humble phrases, in swift, poor, suppliant terms." Indeed, so unconventional, so crude, shaggy, utterly inelegant, are Moussorgsky's scores, that they offend in polite musical circles even to-day. It is only in the modified, "corrected" and indubitably castrated versions of Rimsky-Korsakoff that "Boris" and "Khovanchtchina" maintain themselves upon the stage. This iron, this granite and adamantine music, this grim, poignant, emphatic expression will not fit into the old ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld

... part, he throws away that, which by natural instinct he knows to be the object sought for, and in the sight of the hunter castrates himself, from which circumstance he has gained the name of Castor; and if by chance the dogs should chase an animal which had been previously castrated, he has the sagacity to run to an elevated spot, and there lifting up his leg, shews the hunter that the object of his pursuit is gone. Cicero speaking of them says, "They ransom themselves by that part of the body, for which they are chiefly ...
— The Itinerary of Archibishop Baldwin through Wales • Giraldus Cambrensis



Words linked to "Castrated" :   uncastrated, neutered, cut, gelded, emasculated, spayed, altered, unsexed



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