ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]

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  1.  Deprived of virility; castrated.

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1837.  M. Donovan, Dom. Econ., II. 309. The flesh of the emasculated animal is universally preferred.

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1871.  Darwin, Desc. Man, II. xviii. 289. The emasculated bull reverts to the colour of the female.

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  2.  fig. Unmanly, effeminate.

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1701.  Collier, M. Anton. (1726), 97. The Legions … Vectilianus found perfectly emasculated.

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1850.  Maurice, Mor. & Met. Philos. (ed. 2), 215. The impression of a wretched emasculated age.

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1877.  Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. II. 19. That emasculated caste, who showed their quality … by flying … at the first breath of personal danger.

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