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Surgical removal of the foreskin of males
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circumcision
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 12c., from Latin circumcisionem (nominative circumcisio ), noun of action from past participle stem of circumcidere "to cut around; cut, clip, trim," from circum "around" (see circum- ) + caedere "to cut" (see -cide ).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumcision \Cir`cum*cision\, n. [L. circumcisio.] The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females. Note: The circumcision of males is practiced as a religious rite by the Jews, Mohammedans, etc. (Script.) The ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Male circumcision is the removal of the foreskin from the human penis . In the most common procedure, the foreskin is opened, adhesions are removed, and the foreskin is separated from the glans . After that, the circumcision device (if used) is placed, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE female ▪ For the first time, the World Health Organisation's annual assembly passed a resolution condemning female circumcision . ▪ But he may not carry out any form of female circumcision at the request of a patient ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of excising or amputating the prepuce (the foreskin on penises, the clitoral hood on clitorises) 2 The act of excising tissue from the vulva of the female.
Usage examples of circumcision.
Circumcision is absolutely fundamental to Dogon culture for religious reasons.
Therefore circumcision was fittingly instituted in the person of Abraham.
Hence others say that Circumcision conferred grace also as regards a certain positive effect, i.
The only dispensation I have asked and obtained, has been respecting circumcision, although it can hardly be called so, because, at my age, it might have proved dangerous.
Yet this truly comic paper does not probably know that it is comic, any more than the kleptomaniac knows that he steals, or than John Milton knew he was a humorist when he wrote a hymn upon the circumcision, and spent his honeymoon in composing a treatise on divorce.
The child, therefore, in the womb would do what the father in the womb had done before him, nor should any trace of memory concerning circumcision be expected till the eighth day after birth, when, but for the fact that the impression in this case is forgotten almost as soon as made, some slight presentiment of coming discomfort might, after a large number of generations, perhaps be looked for as a general rule.
It would not, however, be surprising, that the effect of circumcision should be occasionally inherited, and it would appear as though this was sometimes actually the case.
NARRATOR: Older than the banks of the Nile, not so cruel as the circumcision rite of the Zulus, and even more intricate than a snowflake is the bar-mitzvah.
Then they tried with the saints and circumcision, with the Sultan and the Greek race.
Hebrew rabbi performs the ceremony of circumcision with a stone knife.
With the couvade, the practice of circumcision, unity of religious beliefs and customs, folk-lore, and alphabetical signs, language and flood legends, we array together a mass of unanswerable proofs of prehistoric identity of race.
At the briss, the classic circumcision ceremony, Meyer's father made his announcement.
Since he wasn't circumcised until the 1970s, and he would be baptized in the 890s, clearly his circumcision took place after his supposed baptism.
Yet if any one contends that it is said of nothing else than circumcision, that in it the infant has broken the covenant of God because, he is not circumcised, he must seek some method of explanation by which it may be understood without absurdity (such as this) that he has broken the covenant, because it has been broken in him although not by him.
Paul circumcised his disciple Timothy, not because he needed circumcision for his justification, but that he might not offend or contemn those Jews, weak in the faith, who had not yet been able to comprehend the liberty of faith.