[Lat. spado, ad. Gr. σπάδων eunuch. Cf. SPADE sb.4] A eunuch; a castrated person.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 166. Whan that spado lovithe paramouris.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 124. They live longest in every kinde that exercise it not at all, and this is true not onely in Eunuches by nature, but spadoes by Art.
1650. Bulwer, Anthropomet., 207. Castrated animals in any kind & Spado’s by Art, live longer then they that retain their Virilities.
