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Definition of Circumcise

Circumcise
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.] 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.

Meaning of Circumcise from wikipedia

- men. Eastern and southern Africa had a particularly low prevalence of cir****cised males. This region has a disproportionately high HIV infection rate,...
- increasing, however. Even in Israel, more and more parents choose not to cir****cise their sons. Orthodox Jews consider an intended failure to follow this...
- PMID 9916601. Boczko S, Freed S (November 1979). "Penile carcinoma in cir****cised males". New York State Journal of Medicine. 79 (12): 1903–4. PMID 292845...
- Book of Genesis, God commanded the biblical patriarch Abraham to be cir****cised, an act to be followed by his male descendants on the eighth day of life...
- Plants Under Domestication, Charles Darwin also mentioned cases of "born cir****cised" babies as "conclusive evidence" for the now-discredited blending inheritance...
- מוֹהֲלִים‎ mohalim [mo.haˈlim], Imperial Aramaic: מוֹהֲלָא‎ mohala, "cir****ciser") is a Jewish man trained in the practice of brit milah, the "covenant...
- cir****cision is the percentage of males in a given po****tion who have been cir****cised, with the procedure most commonly being performed as a part of preventive...
- that Moses failed to cir****cise his son, thereby angering God and provoking the attack, but Zipporah's quick action in cir****cising her son appeases God...
- by other men and forcibly cir****cised. R1 Maccabees relates the story of how Mattathias (ca. 166 BC) forcibly cir****cised the sons of Jewish parents...
- of Luke chapter 2, which states: And when eight days were fulfilled to cir****cise the child, his name was called Jesus, the name called by the angel before...