ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] a. Rendered womanish or unmanly. b. Reduced to the employments of a woman. † c. ? Degraded by subjection to a woman.
1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. iii. § 38. His chiefest Consorts were Effeminated persons, Ruffians and the like.
1619. H. Hutton, Follie’s Anat., 24. See Omphale, her effeminated king Basely captive, make him doe any thing.
1726. De Foe, Hist. Devil, I. iv. The effeminated Male Apple eater [Adam].
