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