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He used to be a rather entertaining and occasionally free-thinking maverick, before he caponized himself winning the Republican nomination, proclaiming himself as the new Ronnie Reagan of the far, far right.

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We saw dozens of broods of chickens, and one or two of young guinea-fowl, being taken care of by caponized bantams, game-cocks, and cochin-chinas.

X. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi 1916

These improvised mothers looked almost precisely as they did before being caponized, the differences, chiefly in the color of the comb, being insignificant, for they were full-grown birds when operated on.

X. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi 1916

After first celebrating an unknown stone, the Alectorius, which renders its possessor invincible if it has been taken out of the stomach of a cock caponized four years before or if it has been ripped out of the ventricle of a hen, Porta informs us that chalcedony wins law suits, that carnelian stops bloody flux 'and is exceeding useful to women who are sick of their flower,' that hyacinth protects against lightning and keeps away pestilence and poison, that topaz quells 'lunatic' passions, that turquoise is of advantage against melancholy, quartan fever, and heart failure.

Là-bas Keene [Translator] Wallace 1877