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Circumcise   Listen
verb
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



... Moslem, not the Jewish fashion (loc. cit.). Heated sand is applied as a styptic and the patient is dieted with ginger-soup and warm drinks of ginger-water, pork being especially forbidden. The Fantis of the Gold Coast circumcise in sacred places, e.g., at Accra on a Fetish rock rising from the sea The peoples of Sennaar, Taka, Masawwah and the adjacent regions follow the Abyssinian custom. The barbarous Bissagos and Fellups of North Western Guinea make cuts on ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton


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


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