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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,...
- 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...
- Plants Under Domestication, Charles Darwin also mentioned cases of "born cir****cised" babies as "conclusive evidence" for the now-discredited blending inheritance...
- 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...
- 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...
- מוֹהֲלִים‎ mohalim [mo.haˈlim], Imperial Aramaic: מוֹהֲלָא‎ mohala, "cir****ciser") is a Jewish man trained in the practice of brit milah, the "covenant...
- Cir****cise Me is a 2008 biographical film about the American-born Israeli comedian Yisrael Campbell. It was produced by Matthew Kalman, foreign news correspondent...
- cir****cised parts have been in touch with one another, ghusl is necessary". According to some other ḥadīth reports, Muhammad supposedly cir****cised his...
- cir****cision then Colchians, Ethiopians, Phoenicians, and Syrians as cir****cising cultures. The purpose of cir****cision has been variously proposed that...
- 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...