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What (who) is eunuch - definition

CASTRATED MALE HUMAN
Eunuchs; Archieunuch; Eunich; Euniches; Eunuchoid; Eunech; Eunuch (court official); Nae-ssi; Naeshi; Court eunuch; Eunuchism; Eunuch official
  • Harem Ağası]], head of the black eunuchs of the [[Ottoman Imperial Harem]]
  • Hijras]] of Delhi, India
  • Ottoman]] [[Sultan]] [[Abdul Hamid II]] at the Imperial Palace, 1912
  • Zhanghuai]], 706 AD.
  • [[Rembrandt]], ''[[The Baptism of the Eunuch]]'', 1626
  • A black eunuch of the Ottoman Sultan. Photograph by [[Pascal Sebah]], 1870s.

Eunuch         
·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.
eunuch         
['ju:n?k]
¦ noun
1. a man who has been castrated.
2. an ineffectual person: a nation of political eunuchs.
Origin
OE, via L. from Gk eunoukhos, lit. 'bedroom guard', from eune 'bed' + a second element related to ekhein 'to hold'.
eunuch         
(eunuchs)
A eunuch is a man who has had his testicles removed.
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Wikipedia

Eunuch

A eunuch ( (listen) YOO-nək) is a male who has been castrated. Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function.

The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BCE. Over the millennia since, they have performed a wide variety of functions in many different cultures: courtiers or equivalent domestics, for espionage or clandestine operations, castrato singers, concubines, or sexual partners, religious specialists, soldiers, royal guards, government officials, and guardians of women or harem servants.

Eunuchs would usually be servants or slaves who had been castrated to make them less threatening servants of a royal court where physical access to the ruler could wield great influence. Seemingly lowly domestic functions—such as making the ruler's bed, bathing him, cutting his hair, carrying him in his litter, or even relaying messages—could, in theory, give a eunuch "the ruler's ear" and impart de facto power on the formally humble but trusted servant. Similar instances are reflected in the humble origins and etymology of many high offices.

Eunuchs supposedly did not generally have loyalties to the military, the aristocracy, or a family of their own (having neither offspring nor in-laws, at the very least). They were thus seen as more trustworthy and less interested in establishing a private "dynasty". Because their condition usually lowered their social status, they could also be easily replaced or killed without repercussion. In cultures that had both harems and eunuchs, eunuchs were sometimes used as harem servants.

Examples of use of eunuch
1. Already, Bush The Discredited has become Bush The Eunuch.
2. "An Italian eunuch is brought over hither and has sung several times at Whitehall Palace.
3. As far as pilgrimage, the eunuch is required to offer the pilgrimage just as everyone else.
4. Is it, like Japan, an economic force but a political eunuch?
5. "Four years ago I saw one eunuch beggar being mercilessly harassed by the public.