v. Also 7 eunuchise. [f. EUNUCH sb. + -IZE.] trans. To reduce to the condition of a eunuch; to emasculate; lit. and fig.
1632. Brome, Novella, IV. ii. If I worship any of ’hem more … let me be eunuchiz’d.
1634. Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 99. The King having at that instant, a Knife in his hand, giues it the poore Father and bids him Eunuchize him.
1847. Medwin, Life Shelley, II. 209. Moore … asterized and eunuchized his [Byron’s] pages so barbarously.
1887. trans. V. Hehn’s Wanderings Plants & Anim., 79. Apollonius said that the emperor spared men but eunuchized the earth.
