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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Emasculate

E-măs'cu-lāte, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. EMASCULATED; p. pr. & vb. n. EMASCULATING.] [Lat. emasculare, emasculatum, from e, out, and masculus, male, masculine, diminutive of mas, male.]

  1. To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate; to geld.
  2. To deprive of masculine strength or vigor; to weaken; to render effeminate; to vitiate by unmanly softness.

Luxury had not emasculated their minds. Knox.

E-măs'cu-late, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. emasculatus, p. p. of emasculare.] Deprived of virility or vigor; unmanned. “Emasculate slave.” Hammond.