He means to have you castrated.

The Hebrews placarded castration an unpardonable sin, making it a sin to castrate even animals.

The results of the experiments and observations can be summed up as follows: if the male individual is castrated before puberty, that is, before the advent of the sexual life, secondary sex qualities do not develop.

In the castrated female, the pelvis does not grow to the normal feminine size, the breasts do not swell as they should, more or less hair comes out on the face, the voice is low-pitched, and tends to be rather husky, the legs are longer, and again, the mentality is dulled.

In short, the castrated male takes on a feminine type, and the castrated female, a male type.

In short, the castrated male takes on a feminine type, and the castrated female, a male type.

Now, if in the castrated male is transplanted an ovary, the positive characteristics of the female are evoked, such as enlarged mammary glands, and a tendency to secretion of milk.

If in the castrated female a testicle is planted, the masculine traits become much more marked and striking.

The response to the revolution in the cell-republic of the castrate by the other endocrines, the thyroid, the pituitary, and the adrenals, determines which it is to be.

During the revels of great festivals, apprentices to the trade, wrought up by certain traditional songs and music, would be hypnotised into a frenzy, run amuck, throw off every garment, and, snatching up swords, deliberately placed in convenient spots, castrate themselves at one blow.

But being worsted in the combat, he was condemned to be castrated, and to have his eyes put out.

When Geoffrey was master of Normandy, the chapter of sees presumed, without his consent, to proceed to the election of a bishop; upon which be ordered all of them, with the bishop elect, to be castrated, and made all their testicles be brought him in a platter.

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unman, unnerve, enervate; emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix. shatter, exhaust, weaken &c 160.

disinfect, fumigate, ventilate, deodorize; whitewash; castrate, emasculate.

Futra Galleyfoist German fencer Getes Ghosts crying Vindicta Gibb ("A male-cat, now generally applied to one that has been castrated.

2. 'Whilst attending a patient on a farm on September 5 last my attention was called to a cart-horse, five years of age, that had been castrated in the standing position by a travelling castrator about ten days previously.

To avenge the murder of their steward, the Barretts assembled an armed force, and, having defeated the Lynotts and captured many of them, they offered their prisoners two forms of mutilation: they were either to be blinded or castrated.

A good many members of the new class had themselves castrated after they had passed their state examination.

The grandson had been from his earliest youth under the influence of a eunuch, Wei Chung-hsien, who had castrated himself.

What I have here said is not only in regard to the Publick, but with an Eye to my particular Correspondent who has sent me the following Letter, which I have castrated in some Places upon these Considerations.

Some castrate their puppies thinking them less likely to leave the flock, but others do not, thinking that the operation makes them less fierce.

These people were found to be castrated; for they had been made prisoners by the Caribs in some other islands, who had so used them as we do capons, that they might become fatter and better food.

The cannibals captured children, whom they castrated, just as we do chickens and pigs we wish to fatten for the table, and when they were grown and become fat they ate them.

Each native who had received baptism presented the priest with a cock or a hen, but not with a capon, because they have not yet learned to castrate the chickens and make capons of them.