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Definition of Castrated

1. Adjective. Deprived of sexual capacity or sexual attributes.

Definition of Castrated

1. Adjective. Having had the reproductive organs removed (testicles in males, ovaries in females). ¹

2. Verb. (past of castrate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Castrated

1. castrate [v] - See also: castrate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Castrated

Literary usage of Castrated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1907)
"... Chronicle was castrated, as well in the sis ud Vol., in that Part relating to Queen Elizabeth's Reign, and that hath a Copy so castrated, being Father ..."

2. American Agriculturist (1847)
"This hog was kept on grass alone through the summer months, castrated the ... If he had been castrated in the spring, and kept on meal all summer as many ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"When male domestic animals are castrated at an early age, as is customary ... When a mature animal is castrated he is sometimes called a "stag," because the ..."

4. A Zulu-Kafir Dictionary: Etymologically Explained, with Copious by Jacob Ludwig Döhne (1857)
"(From tena-J Something gelded, castrated ; applied to small animals, аз goats, ... ie : a castrated goat. nm—TENTE, n. pi. iini. (From te, touched, and nte, ..."

5. Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Biology and Medicine (1903)
"increase in bone hydroxyproline content at 1 month but by 12 months there was no difference between the castrated and intact animals. ..."

6. Herodotus by Herodotus (1828)
"... happen;—,themselves shall be hurried into servitude, their youths castrated, their daughters carried to Bactra, and their country given to others. ..."

7. The Principles of Agriculture by Albrecht Daniel Thaer (1844)
"When pigs are to be castrated, they should for four and twenty hours ... Animals of both sexes are sometimes imperfectly castrated: the effect of this ..."

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