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Gelded   Listen
verb
Geld  v. t.  (past & past part. gelded or gelt; pres. part. gelding)  
1.
To castrate; to emasculate.
2.
To deprive of anything essential. "Bereft and gelded of his patrimony."
3.
To deprive of anything exceptionable; as, to geld a book, or a story; to expurgate. (Obs.)





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"Gelded" Quotes from Famous Books



... Pitcairn, iii, p. 603. 'Toads did draw the plough as oxen, couch-grass was the harness and trace-chains, a gelded animal's horn was the coulter, and a piece of a gelded ...
— The Witch-cult in Western Europe - A Study in Anthropology • Margaret Alice Murray
... should, according to his ability, carry on some occupation suitable to his caste and religious order. Those that live by agriculture should not allow a bull to be gelded. ...
— The Siksha-Patri of the Swami-Narayana Sect • Professor Monier Williams (Trans.)


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