Word Meanings - CIRCUMCISION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females. Note: The circumcision of males is practiced as a religious rite by the Jews, Mohammedans, etc. The Jews, as a circumcised people. Rejection of the sins

Additional info about word: CIRCUMCISION

1. The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females. Note: The circumcision of males is practiced as a religious rite by the Jews, Mohammedans, etc. The Jews, as a circumcised people. Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith.

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• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• LABIATED
  See
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• PRACTICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to practice or action. 2. Capable of being turned to use or account; useful, in distinction from ideal or theoretical; as, practical chemistry. "Man's practical understanding." South. "For all practical purposes." Macaulay.
• INTERNALLY
  1. Inwardly; within the enveloping surface, or the boundary of a thing; within the body; beneath the surface. 2. Hence: Mentally; spiritually. Jer. Taylor.
• PRACTIC
  1. Practical. 2. Artful; deceitful; skillful. "Cunning sleights and practick knavery." Spenser.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• PRACTICALLY
  1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless. 2. By means of practice or use; by experience or experiment; as, practically wise or skillful; practically acquainted with a subject. 3.
• PREPUCE
  The foreskin.
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• FORESKIN
  The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; the prepuce.
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• PRACTICIAN
  One who is acquainted with, or skilled in, anything by practice; a practitioner.
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• LABIALLY
  In a labial manner; with, or by means of, the lips.
• LABIATE
  To labialize. Brewer.
• PRACTICO
  A guide. D. C. Worcester.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• UNPRACTICAL
  Not practical; impractical. "Unpractical questions." H. James. I like him none the less for being unpractical. Lowell.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• INFRALABIAL
  Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.
• CHALKCUTTER
  A man who digs chalk.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• IRRELIGIOUS
  1. Destitute of religion; not controlled by religious motives or principles; ungodly. Cf. Impiou. Shame and reproach are generally the portion of the impious and irreligious. South. 2. Indicating a want of religion; profane; wicked; as, irreligious
• UNILABIATE
  Having one lip only; as, a unilabiate corolla.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.