English

Verb

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

1. To castrate.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.2:

     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.

Italian

Verb

evirate

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

Anagrams

• evitare
• eviterà
• riavete
• vietare
• vieterà

Latin

Verb

ēvirāte

1. first-person plural present active imperative of ēvirō