Evirates vs Emirates - What's the difference?
evirates | emirates |
(evirate)
To castrate.
* , II.3.2:
* 1846 , (Walter Savage Landor), J. Forster (editor), The works of Walter Savage Landor ,
To render weak or unmanly.
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As a verb evirates
is (evirate).As a noun emirates is
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(head)evirate
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- Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.
- The pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate him (poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy), so apostolic and desperate a doctor is Dr. Glaston, — so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing!