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Webster 1913 Edition
Epicene
Ep′i-cene
,Adj.
& Noun.
[L.
epicoenus
, Gr. [GREEK]; fr. ἐπί
+ [GREEK] common; cf. F. épicène
.] 1.
Common to both sexes; – a term applied, in grammar, to such nouns as have but one form of gender, either the masculine or feminine, to indicate animals of both sexes; as
βοῦς
, bos, for the ox and cow; sometimes applied to eunuchs and hermaphrodites. 2.
Fig.: Sexless; neither one thing nor the other.
The literary prigs
epicene
. Prof. Wilson.
He represented an
epicene
species, neither churchman nor layman. J. A. Symonds.
Webster 1828 Edition
Epicene
EP'ICENE
,Adj.