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Castration   /kˌæstrˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Castration

noun
1.
Neutering a male animal by removing the testicles.  Synonym: emasculation.
2.
Surgical removal of the testes or ovaries (usually to inhibit hormone secretion in cases of breast cancer in women or prostate cancer in men).
3.
The deletion of objectionable parts from a literary work.  Synonym: expurgation.



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"Castration" Quotes from Famous Books



... Caligula he so lost patience that he forcibly entered the priest M. Lepidus, before the sacrifice was completed. The beautiful Nero was formally married to Pythagoras (or Doryphoros) and afterwards took to wife Sporus who was first subjected to castration of a peculiar fashion; he was then named Sabina after the deceased spouse and claimed queenly honours. The "Othonis et Trajani pathici" were famed; the great Hadrian openly loved Antinous,and the wild debaucheries of Heliogabalus ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 10 • Richard F. Burton


Words linked to "Castration" :   bowdlerisation, altering, neutering, bowdlerization, surgical procedure, emasculation, expurgation, castrate, operation, surgical operation, surgery, surgical process, castration anxiety, fixing, deletion


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