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Definition of Circumcise
1. Verb. Cut the skin over the clitoris.
2. Verb. Cut the foreskin off male babies or teenage boys. "During the bris, the baby boy is circumcised"
Entails: Cut
Derivative terms: Circumcision, Circumcision
Definition of Circumcise
1. 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.
Definition of Circumcise
1. Verb. To amputate the prepuce from a penis. ¹
2. Verb. To amputate the clitoris, prepuce, or labia. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Circumcise
1. [v -CISED, -CISING, -CISES]
Medical Definition of Circumcise
1. To perform circumcision, especially of the prepuce. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumcise
Literary usage of Circumcise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Explanatory notes upon the New Testament by John Wesley (1813)
"And on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child, and they called him
Zacharias, after the name of his Hither. ..."
2. The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments (1903)
"2 f At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee 4 sharp knives, and circumcise
again the children of Israel the second time. ..."
3. A Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malabar in the Beginning of by Duarte Barbosa (1866)
"that they circumcise themselves, and mark themselves on the temples and forehead
with fire, and also in water, like the Catholic Christians. ..."
4. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Fox, Thomas Ellwood (1832)
"truth, which is over all the worships that are out of God's Spirit and ' that
doth baptize them and circumcise them, plunging down and cut- ' ting off the ..."
5. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"HcL. to circumcise; 3. ./if>. to prune (the expression, &c.); to cut off (one's
opportunity, Sec.); to lessen (one's wages, ..."
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