Also 7 eunochisme, -ucisme. [f. EUNUCH sb. + -ISM.] The process or custom of making eunuchs; the condition of being a eunuch; emasculation.
1620. Bp. Hall, Hon. Mar. Clergie, I. § 7. Neither doe we thinke that the earth affords any thing more glorious then eunuchisme for the kingdome of heauen.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., xx. 202. Many fantastical reasons have been framed, and ends propounded, to introduce Eunochisme, and this way of degrading men from their manhood. Ibid., 204. Eunucisme.
1688. W. Payne, Texts of Papists conc. Celibacy Exam., II. 782 (T.). This voluntary Eunuchism is not to be understood literally, as it was by Origen.
1718. (title) Eunuchism Display’d, Describing all the different Sorts of Eunuchs [etc.].
1875. J. Davenport, Curios. Erot. Physiol., Essay v. (title), Eunuchism.
