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Webster 1913 Edition


emasculate

e-mas′cu-late

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Adj.
Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned; weak.
“Emasculate slave.”
Hammond.

Webster 1828 Edition


Emasculate

EM`ASCULATE

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Verb.
T.
[Low L. emasculo, from e and masculus, a male. See Male.]
1.
To castrate; to deprive a male of certain parts which characterize the sex; to geld; to deprive of virility.
2.
To deprive of masculine strength or vigor; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.
Women emasculate a monarch's reign.
To emasculate the spirits.

EM`ASCULATE

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Adj.
Unmanned; deprived of vigor.