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Fortunately castration for the production of "castrata," or tenor singers, has almost fallen into disuse.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

He doesn't need help from a woman regarding his "castrata" status.

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Obama is singing soprano, like the rest of the castrata. eb says:

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Castration has long been practiced, either for the production of eunuchs, or castrata, through vengeance or jealousy, for excessive cupidity, as a punishment for crime, in fanaticism, in ignorance, and as a surgical therapeutic measure (recently, for the relief of hypertrophied prostate).

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Fortunately castration for the production of ` ` castrata, '' or tenor singers, has almost fallen into disuse.

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Castration has long been practiced, either for the production of eunuchs, or castrata, through vengeance or jealousy, for excessive cupidity, as a punishment for crime, in fanaticism, in ignorance, and as a surgical therapeutic measure (recently, for the relief of hypertrophied prostate).

Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine 1896

Stamina: Filamenta quinque sepalis opposita, quorum tria antherifera, antheris basifixis linearibus, duo reliqua castrata.

Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

The secret of the Lesbians was only employed, however, by the abbes and the castrata.

The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

Nevertheless, there are few productions which give us so lively and interesting a picture of the manners of the age as the SERMONS OF LATIMER; which were spoilt in an "_editio castrata_" that appeared in the year 1788, 8vo.

Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

_Filam. _ 10, inæqualia: quorum 3 (raro 5) castrata.

The Botanical Magazine, Vol. 6 Or, Flower-Garden Displayed William Curtis 1772