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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
infibulate

1620s, from Latin infibulatus, past participle of infibulare "to close with a clasp," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + fibula "a clasp, pin" (see fibula). Related: Infibulated.

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infibulate

vb. To perform infibulation (on)

Usage examples of "infibulate".

According to Celsus, Mercurialis, and others, the gladiators were infibulated to guard against the loss of vigor by sexual excesses.

He would toss his head to and fro among the castrated devotees of the goddess, and he infibulated himself, and did all that the eunuch-priests are wont to do [Orgiastic rites, including the act of castration practised in connexion with various eastern cults and especially with the Magna Mater, seem to have been performed in the worship of the god Elagabalus.

Their vaginas were scarred and deformed into open pits, and then infibulated with slivers of bone or ivory.

Was it the scars that covered every inch of their bodies, the flesh cosmetically punctured and sliced and infibulated, then dusted down with ash?