Word Meanings - CIRCUMCISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To purify spiritually. (more info) around, to circumcise; circum + caedere to cut; akin to E. cæsura, 1. To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of, in the case of males, and the internal labia of, in the case of females.

Related words: (words related to CIRCUMCISE)

• CIRCUMROTARY; CIRCUMROTATORY
  turning, rolling, or whirling round.
• CIRCUMNUTATE
  To pass through the stages of circumnutation.
• CIRCUMSCISSILE
  Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around . See Illust. of Pyxidium.
• CIRCUMSPECTNESS
  Vigilance un guarding against evil from every quarter; caution. forces circumspectness on those abroad, who at home are nursed in security. Sir H. Wotton.
• CIRCUMFLANT
  Blowing around. Evelyn.
• PURIFY
  1. To make pure or clear from material defilement, admixture, or imperfection; to free from extraneous or noxious matter; as, to purify liquors or metals; to purify the blood; to purify the air. 2. Hence, in figurative uses: To free from guilt
• CIRCUMVENTOR
  One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
• CIRCUMSCRIPTIVELY
  In a limited manner.
• CIRCUMFERENTOR
  1. A surveying instrument, for taking horizontal angles and bearings; a surveyor's compass. It consists of a compass whose needle plays over a circle graduated to 360º, and of a horizontal brass bar at the ends of which are standards with narrow
• CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
  The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail. "I will endeavor to describe with sufficient circumstantiality." De Quincey.
• CIRCUMLOCUTORY
  Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.
• CIRCUMFORANEAN; CIRCUMFORANEOUS
  Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.
• CIRCUMVOLANT
  Flying around. The circumvolant troubles of humanity. G. Macdonald.
• CIRCUMGESTATION
  The act or process of carrying about. Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.
• CIRCUMFLEXION
  1. The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form. 2. A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.
• CIRCUMFLECT
  1. To bend around. 2. To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.
• CIRCUMSCRIBABLE
  Capable of being circumscribed.
• CIRCUMPOSITION
  The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.
• LABIATED
  See
• CIRCUMSCRIBE
  To draw a line around si as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5. Syn. -- To bound; limit; restrict; confine; abridge; restrain; environ; encircle; inclose; encompass. (more info) 1. to write or engare around. Thereon is