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circumcision|sɜːkəmˈsɪʒən|
Also 2 -cisiun, 3–4 -cicioun, 4 -cisioun, -sisioune, 5 -sycyon, -sysion, 6 -sysyon.
[a. OF. circumcisiun (mod.F. circoncision), ad. L. circumcīsiōnem, n. of action f. circumcīdĕre: see circumcide.]
1. The action of circumcising; practised as a religious rite by Jews and Muslims, and by various other nations; also as a surgical operation.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 83 Þene nome þet him wes iȝefen at circumcisiun. a1300Cursor M. 10986 Þu sal be dumb..Till þe time of his circumsisioune. 1382Wyclif John vii. 22 Moyses ȝaf to ȝou circumcisioun. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 207 b, Whiche circumcision (as saynt Bede sayth) was a fygure of baptym. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 20 Their Religion is Paganisme, yet Circumsision tels us, they [Malagasy] have heard of Mahomet. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xvi. 390 Distinguished by the peculiar mark of circumcision. 1879Wallace Australas. v. 101 Circumcision is used in the north and in the south. [1881Syd. Soc. Lex., Circumcisio fœminarum. The removal of portions of the nymphæ, and sometimes of the clitoris, of the female, as practised by some Eastern nations.]
attrib.1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. 9 The circumcision knives which Josuah also buried. 1885Arnold & Sons Catal. Surgic. Instr. 466 Circumcision Clamp.
b. fig. Spiritual purification by, as it were, cutting away sin.
1526Tindale Rom. ii. 29 The circumcision of the herte is the true circumcision. 1611Ibid. Circumcision is, that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter. 1549Bk. Comm. Prayer, Collect for Circumcision, Graunt vs the true circumcision of thy spirite.
c. transf. In Biblical language: The circumcised people, the Jews; fig. ‘the Israel of God’.
1382Wyclif Acts x. 45 The feithful, or cristen, men of circumcisioun [1534 Tindale, They of the circumcision which beleved: so Cranmer, Geneva, and 1535Coverdale, The faithfull of the circumcision; so Rheims.] 1611Bible Gal. ii. 9 That wee should goe vnto the heathen, and they vnto the circumcision. ― Phil. iii. 3 For we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit..and haue no confidence in the flesh. 1839J. Yeowell Anc. Brit. Ch. ii. (1847) 18 The especial apostle of the circumcision.
2. Eccl. The festival of the Circumcision of Christ, observed on the 1st of January.
14..Circumsision (Tundale's Vis. 98) This day..That called is the Circumsysion. a1558Songs & Ball. (1860) 5 The tyme of newe yere, callyd the feast of Chrysts syrcomsysyon. 1782Priestley Corrupt Chr. II. viii. 134 The feast of Circumcision is first mentioned..in 450.
†3. [As in cl. Lat.] Cutting or shaving round.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 489 b, That shavelyng and cowled rowte..with bare scraped scalpes, beyng a new fangled mark of circumcision. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1673) 10 Another beast..much like a Baboun, as appeareth by his natural circumcision. 1761Fitzgerald Fruit Trees in Phil. Trans. LII. 72 Making an incision lengthways, from the upper to the under circumcision, I separated the bark.
circumˈcisionist, an advocate of circumcision.
1883J. Parker Apost. Life II. 99 He was no circumcisionist. |