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Circumcise   /sˈərkəmsˌaɪz/   Listen
Circumcise

verb
(past & past part. circumcised; pres. part. circumcising)
1.
Cut the skin over the clitoris.
2.
Cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys.






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"Circumcise" Quotes from Famous Books



... received of the church, and of the apostles and elders, and they declared all things that God had done with them. 5. But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses. 6. And the apostles and elders came together 'for to consider of this matter.'—ACTS ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren

... itself forth in a gospel-adorning conversation, that makes a comely proportion; when the same hand that touched the eye, and turned the man from darkness to light, and gave an heart to know him, that he is the Lord, that doth also circumcise the man's heart to love the Lord his God, with all his heart, and with all his soul, and with all his mind; and this love manifesting its liveliness, in its constraining power to live to him and for him. Light without, heat is but wild fire; but light in the ...
— Christ The Way, The Truth, and The Life • John Brown (of Wamphray)

... They circumcise the Males at 11 or 12 Years of Age, or older; and many are circumcised at once. This Ceremony is performed with a great deal of Solemnity. There had been no Circumcision for some Years before our being here; and then there was one for Raja Laut's Son. ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 • Various

... of the Gipsy women in Cairo is [ARABIC TEXT which cannot be reproduced] "Neduqq wanetahir!" "We tattoo and circumcise!" a phrase which sufficiently indicates their calling. In the "Deutscher Dragoman" of Dr Philip Wolff, Leipzig, 1867, I find the following ...
— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland



Words linked to "Circumcise" :   remove, cut, take away, take, withdraw, circumcision



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