Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having been subjected to the rite or operation of circumcision; by extension, Jewish.
  • In lichenology, divided from the thallus by a distinct fissure: applied to an apothecium.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective of an man Having had the foreskin of the penis excised.
  • adjective of a woman Having had the clitoris, prepuce, or labia excised.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of circumcise.

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Examples

  • So being circumcised is your pride and joy? viagra Says:

    Matthew Yglesias » Mitchell’s Real Qualifications 2009

  • It is also reported that Wiswell divided his participants into full term circumcised boys and premature intact boys.

    The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • It is also reported that Wiswell divided his participants into full term circumcised boys and premature intact boys.

    The Ethics of Neonatal Circumcision « Gender Across Borders 2009

  • There are concerns that some men will think they are safe from HIV infection once they are circumcised, which is far from the case - they have reduced their risk by 60% but not completely.

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • It may or may not have been scripted that in pointing out Feinstein's Jewish background and his WASP upbringing, he called his colleague "circumcised" and himself "circumspect."

    David Finkle: Hot New Night Club Duo: Michael Feinstein and David Hyde Pierce 2009

  • It's entirely plausible for a 50ish white guy in late-'70s/early-'80s America to exoticize a woman in this way -- heck, it's unfortunately still plausible today -- and it's also plausible that a certain sort of Kenyan father might want his daughter to be "circumcised" in the traditional way -- but I am a little bit queasy about the reason Tiptree seems to have chosen to include these details.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • It's entirely plausible for a 50ish white guy in late-'70s/early-'80s America to exoticize a woman in this way -- heck, it's unfortunately still plausible today -- and it's also plausible that a certain sort of Kenyan father might want his daughter to be "circumcised" in the traditional way -- but I am a little bit queasy about the reason Tiptree seems to have chosen to include these details.

    Up the Walls of the World 2009

  • The Hebrew is an abstract term, not a concrete, as English Version translates, and as the pious "circumcised" is.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Carauan Basha, and of all you that be Bussarmans, (that is to say circumcised) not desiring your bloods, that you deliuer into his hands as many Caphars, that is unbeleeuers (meaning vs the

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Where it says "circumcised," it means those followers of the Old Testament religion of Moses.

    Recent Activity 2010

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