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Definition of Feast of the circumcision
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st.
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Anglican Church, Anglican Communion, Church Of England
Generic synonyms: Feast Day, Fete Day
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feast Of The Circumcision
Literary usage of Feast of the circumcision
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Feast of the Circumcision was kept at an early date in the Gallican Rite, as
is clearly indicated in a Council of Tours (567), in which the Mass of the ..."
2. Liber Albus: The White Book of the City of London by Corporation of London, City of London (England). Corporation, Corporation of London (England), John Carpenter, Henry Thomas Riley (1861)
"The former ceremonial was observed also upon the Feast of the Circumcision [1
January], the Feast of the Epiphany [6 January], and the Feast of the ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In the sixth century, the feast of the circumcision of Christ was introduced as
the octave of Nativity; preceding that time, the first ol January had been ..."
4. Parochial Sermons by Edward Bouverie Pusey (1873)
"feast of the circumcision. JOB xiii. 15. " Though He slay me, yet will I trust
in Him.'" THE world begins this day with glad greetings, and words of hope, ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1866)
"... it is an execrable thing to profane tbe venerable feast of the circumcision
of the Lord with the filth of libidinous pleasures. Wherefore we command you ..."
6. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"THE Feast of the Circumcision, which the church celebrates on the first of Jan-
i uary, has taken the place of another called j the Feast of the Calends, ..."
7. Parochial and Plain Sermons by John Henry Newman (1880)
"(THE feast of the circumcision OF OUR LORD.) "Suffer it to be so now: for thus
it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness."—MATT. iii. 15. ..."
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