masculize

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masculize

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From Latin masculus (“male, masculine”) + -ize.

verb masculizes · masculizing · masculized · masculise

rare To masculinize. Some ancient physicians, Bartholin, Perrault, Sturm, and, later Grasmeyer, have thought that, even without fecundation, the marriage relation suffices, after a time, to masculize woman.

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@misc{masculize_2026,
  title = {masculize},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/masculize},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}