Obs. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To make a eunuch of, castrate; also fig.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Gen. Poems (1677), 16.
| Give me a Lover bold and free, | |
| Not Eunuch’d with Formality; | |
| Like an Embassador that beds a Queen | |
| With the nice caution of a Sword between. |
1682. Creech, Lucretius, II. 52 (T.).
| They Eunuch all her Preists, from whence tis shown, | |
| That they deserve no Children of their own. |
Hence Eunuched ppl. a., emasculated.
1627. May, Lucan, X. 156 (1631), S 2 b. Besides th’vnhappy strength robb’d company The Eunuch’d youths.
