Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumcise \Cir"cum*cise\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Circumcised; p. pr. & vb. n. Circumcising.] [L. circumcisus, p. p. of circumcidere to cut around, to circumcise; circum + caedere to cut; akin to E. c[ae]sura, homicide, concise, and prob. to shed, v. t.]
To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.
(Script.) To purify spiritually.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-13c., "to cut off the foreskin," from Old French circoncisier "circumcise" (12c., Modern French circoncire), from Latin circumcisus, past participle of circumcidere "to cut round, to cut trim, to cut off" (see circumcision). Related: Circumcised; circumcising.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To amputate the prepuce from a penis. 2 To amputate the clitoris, prepuce, or labi
WordNet
v. cut the skin over the clitoris
cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys; "During the bris, the baby boy is circumcised"
Usage examples of "circumcise".
They fell back again under Judaizing teachers who told them they must be circumcised.
Palacio relates that at Azori, in Honduras, the natives circumcised boys before an idol called Icelca.
The circumcised villain blasphemeth the holy church, and Christian men listen and rebuke him not!
His boycock was just a few inches long, circumcised, and as hard as a bar of iron.
So they tell the prince that he and all the men of his city have to be circumcised, and when the men are all lying there holding their handles and saying Ow, ow, ow, the sons of Jacob draw their swords and slaughter them all.
Probably the circumcised part of me, and they'll have to call in a mohel to identify it.
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.
A Christian who knew that almost eleven hundred years later he would be circumcised to fulfill the covenant of Abraham.
Whether before the deluge there was any bodily or visible sign of regeneration, such as was afterwards enjoined upon Abraham when he was circumcised, or what kind of sign it was, the sacred history does not inform us.
And by ordering all, not only sons, but also home-born and purchased servants to be circumcised, he testifies that this grace pertains to all.
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.
I’d seen pictures of circumcised cocks before, but I’d never seen one in person.
There was something special about his circumcised penis, a fierceness, the prominent head and sheathless shaft reminding me of an arrow.
The third base coach - long and thin, maybe circumcised, lots of bushy pubes that would tickle my bottom as he slowly pushed into my ass.
But he was still circumcised, and the men on the riverbank - most of whom had been crying out in the Austrian-German, Italian, or the Slovenian of Trieste - were also circumcised.