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Circumcision

noun

(Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Church) feast day celebrating the circumcision of Jesus; celebrated on January 1st. Synonyms: Feast of the Circumcision, January 1.

The act of circumcising performed on males eight days after birth as a Jewish and Muslim religious rite.

The act of circumcising; surgical removal of the foreskin of males.

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"Circumcision" Quotes from Famous Books

... death the fanatical leaders who had deceived the people (1535-6). Other writers and preachers questioned the doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation, and advocated many heresies condemned by the early Church, some of them going so far as to insist on the revival of circumcision ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... first chapter of Genesis is to give the traditional origin and authority of the sabbath. The account of the flood culminates in a covenant embodying the command that man shall not eat of the blood of sacrificial animals; the priestly stories regarding Abraham aim to give the origin of the rite of circumcision. Israel's early experiences in the wilderness furnish the setting for the giving of the law at Sinai. In this way the late editors of these opening books of the Old Testament connect all of Israel's legislation with Moses and aim to establish ...

— The Makers and Teachers of Judaism • Charles Foster Kent

... bawle you!" cries Harry Martin, "you have brought us to this condition, (58) You must be canting and be plagued, with your Barebones petition, (59) And take in that bull-headed, splay-footed member of the circumcision, That bacon-faced Jew, Corbet, (60) that son of perdition!" ...

— Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684 • Charles Mackay

... there is no inquisition in Turkey. Those who do not know the precepts of religion, say the Turks, will suffer enough in the life to come; there is no need to make them suffer in this life. The only dispensation I have asked and obtained, has been respecting circumcision, although it can hardly be called so, because, at my age, it might have proved dangerous. That ceremony is generally performed, but it ...

— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

... sanctuary, music and dancing are heard and seen on every side. As soon as the maidens are received, they are taken by the gree-gree women to a neighboring stream, where they are washed, and undergo an operation which is regarded as a sort of circumcision. Anointed from head to foot with palm-oil, they are next reconducted to their home in the gree-gree bush. Here, under strict watch, they are maintained by their relatives or those who are in treaty for them ...

— Captain Canot - or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver • Brantz Mayer

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