a. Obs. rare. [ad. L fēmināt-us, f. fēmina woman.] a. Resembling a woman; effeminate. b. Female, feminine.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546), L l. With halfe a berde, as a feminate man.
1557. North, trans. Gueuara’s Diall of Princes, 82 a/1. Money doth not only breake the feminate and tender hartes, but also the hard and craggy rockes.
1633. Ford, The Broken Heart, V. iii.
| A nation warlike, and enur’d to practice | |
| Of policy and labour, cannot brook | |
| A feminate authority. |
Hence † Feminately adv. Obs.
1598. Florio, Inzazzeare, to goe walking wantony, idly or feminatlie vp and downe the streetes.
