EUNUCH
\jˈuːnʌt͡ʃ], \jˈuːnʌtʃ], \j_ˈuː_n_ʌ_tʃ]\
Definitions of EUNUCH
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.
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Alt. of Eunuchate
By Oddity Software
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A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high official rank.
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Alt. of Eunuchate
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
By William R. Warner
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A castrated man: eunuchs were employed as chamberlains in the East, and often had great influence as chief ministers of the kings.
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Unproductive: bar ren. "He had a mind wholly eunuch and ungenerative in matters of literature and taste."-Godwin.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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One whose organs of generation have been removed, or so altered, that he is rendered incapable of reproducing his species, or of exercising the act of venery. Eunuchs were common with the ancient Romans. In Italy, this horrible mutilation still takes place to improve the voice; and in the East, eunuchs have the surveillance of the seraglio.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
