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Definition of Castrates
1. castrate [v] - See also: castrate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Castrates
Literary usage of Castrates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Farmer by Samuel W. Cole (1867)
"Mr. Baker docks and castrates lambs at sii to ten days old ; Brown, ... and castrates
at eight; Gregory docks at wasting and castrates at shearing; ..."
2. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"After union of 2 castrates there was pronounced atrophy of the other sexual organs.
... Afterward blood from the castrates was introduced into the bodies of ..."
3. The Popular Encyclopedia: Being a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences by Daniel Keyte Sandford, Thomas Thomson, Allan Cunningham (1836)
"castrates. The change produced in men by emasculation is highly ... The most
numerous class of castrates are those who are made such by the removal of the ..."
4. The Visigothic Code: (Forum Judicum) by Visigoths, Samuel Parsons Scott (1910)
"Whoever castrates any quadruped used for racing purposes, without the knowledge
or consent of the owner; or castrates any animal which ought not to be ..."
5. The Ductless Glandular Diseases by Wilhelm Falta (1916)
"For the most part it is stated that castrates lack the courage, the passions,
... Mobius points out that castrates lack the higher artistic endowments, ..."
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