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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

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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.
  • 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.
  • TRADESPEOPLE
    People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
  • 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.

 

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