evirate

To castrate.

Some philosophers and divines have evirated themselves, and put out their eyes voluntarily, the better to contemplate.

The pope offered a hundred marks in Latin to who should eviscerate or evirate him (poisons very potent, whereat the Italians are handy), so apostolic and desperate a doctor is Dr. Glaston, — so acute in his quiddities, and so resolute in his bearing!

To render weak or unmanly.