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▪ I. † circumcise, n. Obs. rare.
[a. OF. circoncis ‘prepuce’ (Godef.), repr. L. circumcīsus or -um.]
Circumcision; foreskin.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2848 Sephora toc ðif ȝunge knaue, And dede circumcise haue. 1460Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 128 Þe flesh of his cyrcumsyce.
▪ II. circumcise, v.|ˈsɜːkəmsaɪz|
Also 4 -ces, -sice, -cyse, -zize, 4–5 -sise, -syse, 5 -cyce, 6– -size.
[ad. OF. circonciser, -cisier; or f. F. circoncis-, stem of circoncire (pr. pple. -cisant, pres. subj. -cise, etc.):—L. circumcīdĕre: see prec. and circumcide.]
I. In Scriptural sense.
1. trans. To cut off the foreskin or prepuce of (males); chiefly as a religious rite of Jews and Muslims. Also in Surgery.
(Also to perform an analogous operation on females.)
c1250Gen. & Ex. 1200 Circumcised he was, a-buten schoren..Circumcised on ðe eȝtende day. a1300Cursor M. 2668 (Cott.) Do your knauebarns to circumces [v.r. circumcise]. a1400Ibid. 11095 (Laud MS.) When they had circumzizid Iohn. c1400Destr. Troy 4326 Cercumsiset sothely in sort with the Iewes. 1494Fabyan vii. 329 The Iewys dwellynge at Norwyche..to answere to a complaynt..yt they shulde stele a chylde, and it circumsysyd of the age of a yere. 1611Bible Gen. xvii. 11 And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskinne. 1616R. C. Times' Whis. iv. 1557 Some have turnd Turkes for gaine, yet live despisde After they once have been but circumcisde. c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 13 The Habassin emperour..is a Jew also from the girdle downward, for he is both circumcised and christened. 1815Elphinstone Acc. Caubul (1842) I. 265 The Cauzy..ordered the prisoner to be circumcised against his will. 1863Collingwood tr. Waitz's Introd. Anthrop. I. 106 Bosmann..relates of the women of Wydah, that they can be circumcised like the Hottentot women. 1887R. Druitt Surgeon's Vade Mecum (ed. 12) 803 To produce a radical cure, the Surgeon must circumcise.
b. fig. Chiefly as a Hebraism, in reference to the purification typified by the rite; partly, with the notion of castration.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 13 Than es a man circumsysede gastely. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 53 O Englande, whyle tyme is gyuen thee, circumcise thy harte. 1611Bible Deut. xxx. 6 The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. ix. xxviii, With sharpest griefs her heart was circumcis'd. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 85 If you take such an one and circumcise his passions.
II. From the classical Latin sense.
†2. To cut round. Obs.
1607Topsell Serpents (1608) 636 The flesh round about the wound..to be circumcised and cut with a sharp rasor. 1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 131 Circumcising them of the bark for about two inches round.
†3. fig. To cut short, limit, abridge, circumscribe; to cut off. Obs.
1613Purchas Pilgr. I. iii. xvi. 273 Some circumcise from hence both Phrygia, and Mysia. a1656Hales Gold. Rem. (1688) 308 We must circumcise and pare even this our vow and covenant with God. a1672Wren in Gutch Coll. Cur. I. 239 The Puritan..was strongly bent to circumcise [the Church] both in authority and revenue.
Hence ˈcircumcising vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1300Cursor M. 2681 Þe werk of circumcising. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 149 Poysoned wounds..cured by incision and circumcising of the flesh. 1611Bible Luke ii. 21 When eight dayes were accomplished for the circumcising of the childe. a1711Ken Hymns Festiv. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 215 The circumcising steel. |