gelded, ppl. a.
(ˈgɛldɪd)
Also gelt.
[f. geld v.1 + -ed1.]
1. Of a person or animal: Castrated. † gelded-man, a eunuch.
| 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 173 Iulianus put out of his court eunochos, gilded men, barboures and cokes. c 1475 Pict. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 758/24 Hec nefrenda, a geldyd sow. 1526 Tindale Acts viii. 34 The gelded man answered Philip. 1553 Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 28 No gelded person..shuld be made a priest. 1618 Bolton Florus iv. ii. 278 By the counsel of gelded men. 1652 C. B. Stapylton Herodian 17 Gelded priests. 1705 Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. ii. 24 All the Qualification that St. Philip required of the guelded Blackamore. |
b. Of meat: Derived from castrated animals.
| 1621 Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. i. (1651) 66 All gelded meats in every species are held best. |
2. in transf. and fig. uses of the vb.
| 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie ii. v. 196 His halfe-dozen gelded vicaries. 1611 Florio, Castrato,..a kind of well⁓husked, cleansed or gelded wheat. |
† 3. gelded satyrion, a kind of Orchis. Obs.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. civ. 173 Gelded Satyrion hath leaues with nerues and sinewes like to those of Daffodil. |