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eunuch
eunuch [Gr.,=keeper of the couch], castrated human male, particularly a chamberlain of a harem in Asia. The custom of employing eunuchs as servants in wealthy or royal households is very ancient; it reached its epitome at the court of Constantinople under the Byzantine emperors, from whom the Ottom... Read more
Candace
Candace , title for queens in ancient Ethiopia. One of them made war (c.22 BC) on the Roman governor of Egypt, who defeated her and destroyed Napata, her capital. Another Candace is mentioned in the Bible as the queen of the eunuch converted by Philip (Acts 8.27-39). ... Read more
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer 1939-, Australian feminist and writer. She moved to England (1964), earned a Ph.D. from Cambridge, and taught at the Univ. of Warwick (1967-73). Her book The Female Eunuch (1970), an analysis of attitudes toward women and a call for an end to sexual repression, made her a leading s... Read more
Narses
Narses , c.478-c.573, Byzantine official and general, one of the eunuchs of the palace. He assisted in the suppression of the Nika riot (532) by bribing the Blues of the Circus (see Blues and Greens ) to return their allegiance to Justinian I . In 538 he was sent to Italy to cooperate with Belisa... Read more
harem
harem [Arabic], term applied to women's apartments in a Muslim household. In the ancient Arab world women enjoyed a certain amount of freedom. However, with the advent of Islam, the veiling and seclusion of women into harems became more common. The most famous harem, that of the sultans of Turkey, ... Read more
soprano
soprano [Ital.,=above], female voice of highest pitch. The three basic types of solo soprano are coloratura, lyric, and dramatic. The coloratura has a great range and impressive vocal agility; the lyric soprano has a light, pretty voice; and the dramatic soprano has a sustained power suitable for o... Read more
Bornu
Bornu , former Muslim state, mostly in NE Nigeria, extending S and W of Lake Chad. It began its existence as a separate state in the late 14th cent. From the 14th to the 18th cent. Bornu exported slaves, eunuchs, fabrics dyed with saffron, and other goods to N Africa. Bornu reached its peak under th... Read more
Darius III
Darius III (Darius Codomannus) , d. 330 BC, king of ancient Persia (336-330 BC). A cousin of Artaxerxes III, he was raised to the throne by the eunuch Bagoas, who had murdered both Artaxerxes and his son, Arses; Darius in turn murdered Bagoas. His rule was not stable, however. When Alexander the ... Read more
Yung-lo
Yung-lo , 1359-1424, reign title of the 3d emperor (1403-24) of the Chinese Ming dynasty, whose personal name was Chu Ti. He rose to power in N China after being delegated by his father, the Ming founding emperor Hung Wu (reigned 1368-98), to lead the fight against the retreating Mongols. He usurp... Read more
Cheng Ho
Cheng Ho or Zheng He , 1371-c.1433, admiral, diplomat, and explorer during China's Ming dynasty. At 10 he was captured by Chinese troops in Yunnan, castrated, and sent into the army. He rose in the ranks, became an officer, and in 1404 was named Grand Eunuch by Emperor Yung-lo . The following... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "eunuch"

eunuch
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition eunuch [Gr.,=keeper of the couch], castrated human male, particularly a chamberlain of a harem in Asia. The custom of employing...
Germaine Greer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...In 1970 the publication of The Female Eunuch made her a public figure in the United...although it was apparent that The Female Eunuch was a significant catalyst in the popularization...a second wave of feminism. The Female Eunuch The Female Eunuch is witty, polemical...
eunuchs
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body ...x2019; (to have charge of), the word eunuch literally means ‘chamberlain...imply, not every person referred to as a eunuch was necessarily castrated. In ancient...minister of the king who was given the name eunuch had necessarily ‘suffered the...
Huang Tsung-hsi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...activities of Wei Chung-hsien, a powerful and unscrupulous eunuch, who managed to dominate the young emperor and thus rose to...planned revenge, a new emperor was enthroned who purged the eunuch faction, and Wei Chung-hsien committed suicide. While still...
Eutropius
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Eutropius d. 399, consul of East Roman Emperor Arcadius . A eunuch of the palace, he brought about the marriage (395) of Arcadius...He repelled (398) an invasion of Huns and was the first eunuch to be appointed (399) consul. He was hated for his cruelty...
Hui-Tsung
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...for he was the father of no less than 63 children. The worst failure of Hui-tsung's reign was in foreign policy. The eunuch T'ung Kuang, who rose to the command of the Sung armies, was instrumental in the formation of an alliance with the Chin...
Wang Yang-ming
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Ministry of Justice, later of War. But he twice left office, first because of illness, then because of his offending a powerful eunuch in trying to save an official's life, but these temporary reliefs from public duties gave him the leisure to deepen his thinking...
Yung-lo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...Chien Wen (reigned 1399-1402), after a devastating civil war. Under his reign six maritime expeditions led by the Muslim eunuch Cheng Ho sailed as far as Arabia and E Africa, and tributary relations were established with many kingdoms in SE Asia. Yung...
voice
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...of vocal technique was stressed rather than romantic expression or dramatic interpretation. The sound of the castrato (see eunuch ), for which many 17th- and 18th-century soprano and alto roles were intended, is approached by several contemporary countertenors...
Ptolemy XII
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...brilliant and celebrated sister, Cleopatra , who became his wife and ruled with him. She disagreed with his advisers, notably the eunuch Pothinus, and fled to Syria. She came back (48 BC) with an invading army. At this juncture the defeated Pompey arrived...

Dictionary entries related to "eunuch"

eunuch
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History eunuch A castrated human male. Eunuchs were used as guardians of harems in ancient...practised voluntarily by some Christian sects (the most notable Christian eunuch being the theologian Origen); and was used to produce male adult sopranos...
Azotus
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible Azotus A city in northern Judah, just inland from the Mediterranean coast, formerly called Ashdod . It was held by the Hasmonean John Hyrcanus and later by Herod the Great . Philip is said to have visited the city (Acts 8: 40) after baptizing the Ethiopian eunuch .
baptism
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...11–12). Peter exhorted his audience in Jerusalem to repent and accept baptism (Acts 2: 38). An Ethiopian eunuch was baptized, without an elaborate course of instruction, by Philip as soon as there was a handy pool of water (Acts 8...
feminism
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History ...Feminine Mystique (1963) by the US feminist Betty Friedan; Sexual Politics (1969) by the US writer Kate Millett; The Female Eunuch (1970) by Germaine Greer; Adrienne Rich's Of Woman Born (1977); and Gyn/Ecology (1979) by Mary Daly. In particular...
Ethiopian Orthodox Church
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...The monophysite national church of Ethiopia. The Church entertains legends of its origin in the preaching of Matthew or the eunuch of Acts 8. 26–39, but the planting of Christianity in the country actually dates from the 4th-cent. work of...
Boastfulness
Dictionary entry from: Allusions--Cultural, Literary, Biblical, and Historical: A Thematic Dictionary ...S. state; known for his tall tales. [Am. Culture: Misc.] Thraso swaggering but foolish soldier. [Rom. Lit.: The Eunuch ] Vicar of Bray declared that he would retain his office regardless of the reigning king ’ s religion. [Br. Balladry...
Philips in the NT
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...alms is recorded in Acts 6: 1–6 (later regarded as deacons ). He preached in Samaria, baptized an Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8), and later entertained St Paul at Caesarea (Acts 21: 8). One tradition makes him Bp. of Tralles, in Lydia...
Zheng He
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Zheng He (or Cheng Ho ) (died c. 1433) Chinese admiral and explorer, a Muslim court EUNUCH from Yunnan province. He commanded seven remarkable voyages (1405–33) undertaken by order of the Ming emperor YONGLE...
geld
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology geld castrate. XIII. — ON. gelda , f. geldr barren. So gelding (see -ING3 ) †eunuch; castrated animal. XIV.
Tian Zhuangzhuang
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers ...Daoma Zei (Horse Thief ) 1986 Travelling Players 1988 Rock 'n' Roll Kids 1990 Feifa Shengming 1991 Li Lianying, the Imperial Eunuch 1993 Lan Fengzheng (The Blue Kite ) Other Film: 1992 Family Portrait (assoc pr) Publications By TIAN: articles—...

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Eunuch teenager's passion for education.
Newspaper article from: United News of India (UNI) (New Delhi, India); 3/15/2009; 700+ words ; ...raised,'' pleads a 17-year-old eunuch Chanchal with despondency writ large in...Despite her shortcomings, the young eunuch does not complain from life and accepts...get a chance,'' said the determined eunuch while talking to UNI. Chanchal said that...
Locating the Eunuch: Characterization and Narrative Context in Acts 8:26-40
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 10/1/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...THE STORY of Philip and the Ethiopian eunuch (Acts 8:26-40) could be called a...the religious and ethnic identity of the eunuch, in particular whether he is a Jew...significance of the designation of the eunuch as an Ethiopian. Second, the question...
"Best play with Mardian": eunuch and blackamoor as imperial culturegram.(Antony and Cleopatra)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Shakespeare Studies; 1/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...remarked cultural trope: the pairing of a eunuch and a blackamoor. My termini are Terence's Eunuehus (The Eunuch) and a seventeenth-century Dutch adaptation...opposite to be true: wherever we find a eunuch, we nearly always find a black character...
Der Eunuch von Konstantinopel. (Turkish).(Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; Zulfu Livaneli Der Eunuch von Konstantinopel Wolfgang Riemann...consequences; people, principally the Black Eunuch who oversees the Sultan's harem, the...form of a memoir set down by the Black Eunuch, and we are thus obliged to see people...
`It Was a Bitter Life'; China's Last Eunuch, 91, Looks Back China's Last Eunuch Recalls Years
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/19/1992; ; 700+ words ; ...here say he is China's last surviving eunuch. Driven to his fate by his impoverished...when we left, it was difficult for a eunuch to get a job. Nobody wanted us." Sun...was 10 that he would enter the feudal eunuch servant class - which had served Chinese...
Biography of last eunuch reveals a tumultuous life.
Newspaper article from: The Star (Amman, Jordan); 3/16/2009; 700+ words ; ...him the distinction of being the last eunuch to the last Chinese emperor. After the...built around the tomb of a 16th century eunuch, is undergoing a major expansion. It...conversations with him. The biography AoThe Last Eunuch of China: The Life of SunYaotingAo contains...
Profile: Eunuch candidate running in the city of Kanpur
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 2/17/2002; ; 700+ words ; 00-00-0000 Profile: Eunuch candidate running in the city of Kanpur...55-year-old says she was born a eunuch, considers herself a woman and is dressed...on her chin. Powa and the five other eunuch candidates in Kanpur are all running...
Features: My search for the last eunuch Just before Christmas an old man died in Peking, isolated from modern times by his unique past. Tony Scotland tells of his quest to meet Sun Yao-ting
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 1/5/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...returned on a quest to find the last palace eunuch, Sun Yao-ting. "Eunuchs - pooff...we set off for the western suburbs. "Eunuch is waste material. Excuse me say so, but I don't like eunuch." Loud Report also didn't like to...
Eunuch power in old Byzantium.(Essay)
Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...Empire. Yet the image of an empowered eunuch--a diplomat, a chamberlain, an ambassador...of eunuchs today. To call someone a "eunuch" is to label him, in effect, an ineffectual...society, people tend to focus on the eunuch's penile impotence rather than on the...
Indian eunuch mayor unseated for being male.(PAGE ONE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 9/7/2002; 700+ words ; ...WASHINGTON TIMES NEW DELHI - India's first eunuch mayor has been unseated in a legal dispute...qualifications. "Everyone knows that a eunuch is more close to a man than a woman...illiterate, argued that she was a "born eunuch" - an authentic eunuch is a castrated...