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Definition of Castrators
1. castrator [n] - See also: castrator
Lexicographical Neighbors of Castrators
Literary usage of Castrators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Agriculture by Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1844)
"Great care must be taken in choosing the animals to be retained for breeding.
must be carefully guarded against, especially in places where the castrators ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... Self-castrators "). They were founded by a certain Selivanov (whose real name
is unknown), who, about 1770, declared himself to be Peter III. and a son ..."
3. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1864)
"... because the purgers and castrators, as they were termed, or as Milton calls
them, "the executioners of books," by omitting, or interpolating passages, ..."
4. Environmental Theology by Richard Cartwright Austin (1990)
"... the Jew as a scapegoat toward whom popular anger could be expressed, projecting
a paranoiac picture of Jews as seducers, castrators, and Shylocks. ..."
5. The States of the River Plate by Wilfrid Latham (1868)
"The castrators perform their operation. The lassos are slackened and cast off,
the animal rises; some trot quietly off, downcast and surly; others glare ..."
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