Eunuch

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt ·Alt. of Eunuchate.

II. Eunuch ·noun 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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  • Eunuch

    "The English form of the Greek word which means bed-keeper . In the strict and proper sense they wer...

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