Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Castration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Castration.
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- noun obsolete
castration
Etymologies
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Examples
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Where both are partners rather than antagonists, there is less eviration.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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Better some risk of gross thoughts and even acts, to which phylogeny and recapitulation so strongly incline him, than this subtle eviration.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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They still have football to themselves, and are the majority perhaps in chemistry, and sometimes in physics, but there is danger of a settled eviration.
Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene G. Stanley Hall 1885
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Every man must be conscious of passing minutes, perhaps hours of the day, particularly when engaged in exercise in the open air, in this species of neutrality and eviration.
Thoughts on Man: His Nature, Productions, and Discoveries 1831
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Of the r eviration of the feet us in tbe uterus and tbeEgg.
Chemical Experiments and Opinions Extracted from a Work Published in the Last Century 1790
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