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Circumcise   Listen
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Circumcise  v. t.  (past & past part. circumcised; pres. part. circumcising)  
1.
To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.
2.
(Script.) To purify spiritually.





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"Circumcise" Quotes from Famous Books



... approached Joseph with the petition for bread, he spoke, saying, "I give no food to the uncircumcised. Go hence, and circumcise yourselves, and then return hither." They entered the presence of Pharaoh, and complained to him regarding Joseph, but he said as before, "Go unto Joseph!" And they replied, "We come from Joseph, and ...
— The Legends of the Jews Volume 1 • Louis Ginzberg
... which we have already considered; on the other hand, an extraordinary constancy in the hereditary characters of the species. For more than three thousand six hundred years, which corresponds to about eight hundred generations, the Jews have been circumcised. Nevertheless, if a Jew ceases to circumcise his offspring the prepuce of his children grows as it did three thousand six hundred years ago, although, during the eight hundred generations in question, its absence from birth has prevented it reacting on the germinal cells of the individuals. If the engraphia of the ...
— The Sexual Question - A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study • August Forel
... Christ—namely, Christians. On one day, the first day of the week, we assemble ourselves together, and on the days of the readings(28) we abstain from sustenance. The brethren who are in Gaul do not take males for wives, nor those in Parthia two wives; nor do those in Judea circumcise themselves; nor do those of our sisters who are among the Geli consort with strangers; nor do those of our brethren who are in Persia take their daughters for wives; nor do those who are in Media abandon their dead or bury them alive ...
— A Source Book for Ancient Church History • Joseph Cullen Ayer, Jr., Ph.D.


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


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