[ad. L. ēmasculāt-us, pa. pple. of ēmasculāre: see next.] = EMASCULATED. a. Castrated, deprived of virility. In lit. sense chiefly quasi-sb.
1886. Homilet. Rev., Nov., 403. The kadeshim or emasculates.
b. fig. Unmanly, deprived of vigor; weak, effeminate.
1636. H. Sydenham, Serm. Sol. Occ. (1637), 259. Of Spirits emasculate and sicke.
1752. Smart, Hop Garden. With love Emasculate, and wine.
1849. Robertson, Serm., Ser. I. vi. 90. Too emasculate to trudge through cold and rain.
1867. Contemp. Rev., VI. 169. German architecture is at once eclectic, scholarly, and emasculate.
