Obs. [ad. L. ēvirāt- ppl. stem of ēvirāre: see next.] Castrated, emasculated; deprived of manly strength or vigor.
1606. Holland, Sueton., Annot. 15/2. The water wherof drunken, caused men to be evirate and effeminate. Ibid. (1609), Amm. Marcell., XXVII. x. 321. A certaine esquier or targuetier, borne a verie evirate Eunuch.
1650. Charleton, trans. Van Helmont’s Paradoxes, Prol. C 4 b. Nature is not yet evirate, but holds out bravely.
