verb
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To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from a penis (male).
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(sometimes proscribed) To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia (female).
noun
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A circumcised person
adjective
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(of an man) Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
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(of a woman) Having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised.
Examples of circumcised in a Sentence
Only a few had been circumcised.
To make his life conform to that of Christ, his contemporaries say that he had himself circumcised, wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a cradle, and that he then, clad in a white robe and bare-footed, walked through the streets of Parma crying "Penitenz agite!"
Perhaps Johannes knows for certain that David is not circumcised.
Harold Rosen, Emeritus Professor of English at the Institute of Education, talks and reads from his recent book Are you still circumcised?
And more than that, those are n't circumcised are specifically excluded from the covenant.
If you are circumcised when you were called, don't become uncircumcised, and vise versa.
Dr Lindsay goes on to argue that all insistence on the principle of historical continuity, whether urged by members of the An,glican or the Roman Catholic Church, as upholders of episcopacy, is a deliberate return to the principle of Judaism, which declared that no one who was outside the circle of the " circumcised," no matter how strong his faith nor how the fruits of the Spirit were manifest in his life and deeds, could plead " the security of the Divine Covenant."
He took the place formerly occupied by John Mark in Paul's company, and in deference to Jewish feeling was circumcised.
On the last day, which should be that terminating with the eve of Friday, or of Monday, the bride is taken in procession to the bridegrooms house, accompanied by her female friends, and a band of musicians, jugglers, wrestlers, &c. As before stated, a boy about to be circumcised joins in such a procession, or, frequently, a succession of such boys.
Here the conservative section demanded that he should be circumcised; but Paul successfully opposed this (see Paul).
In relation to the publicans and soldiers who, smitten with remorse, sought out John in the wilderness, his baptism was a purification from their past and so far identical with the proselyte's bath; but so far as it raised them up to be children unto Abraham and filled them with the Messianic hope, it advanced them further than that bath could do, and assured them of a place in the kingdom of God, soon to be established - this, without imposing circumcision on them; for the ordinary proselyte was circumcised as well as baptized.
If you are circumcised when you were called, do n't become uncircumcised, and vise versa.
Families who practice Judaism or Islam may select to have their sons circumcised as a religious practice.
Though studies indicate that uncircumcised boys under the age of five are 20 times more likely than circumcised boys to have urinary tract infections (UTIs), the rate of incidence of UTIs is quite low.
There are also indications that circumcised men are less likely to suffer from penile cancer, inflammation of the penis, or have many sexually transmitted diseases.
Phimosis and penile cancer are very rare, even in men who have not been circumcised.
Circumcised girls have a high incidence of infertility and sexual dysfunction as adults.
Among boys who are circumcised, most have no penile, urologic, or sexual dysfunction as adults.
A majority of girls who are circumcised experience urologic, reproductive, and sexual dysfunction as adults.
The most common form of masturbation, especially in circumcised males, is to wrap one or both hands or several fingers and thumb around the erect penis and stroke it up and down until ejaculation.
Initially, parents should be sure their son is not circumcised because the foreskin is often essential in hypospadias repair surgery.
During the first week or so after your baby is born, it isn't necessary to give him a tub bath, particularly if his umbilical cord hasn't fallen off, and he has been circumcised.
No alien, sojourner or hired servant shall eat thereof, but a bought servant, if circumcised.
For example, the Jewish believers, including the Apostles themselves, at the outset required the Gentile believers to be circumcised.
Other fundamental principles of Paul's failed of comprehension and acceptance, but the belief finally prevailed that the observance of Jewish law and custom was unnecessary, and that in the Christian Church there is no distinction between the circumcised and the uncircumcised.
Boys are circumcised at the age of five or six years, when the boy is paraded, generally with a bridal procession, on a gaily caparisoned horse and dressed in womans clothes.
If a sojourner should wish to keep the Passover, all his male shall be circumcised and he will be as one born in the land.