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Circumcision in English
- circumcision⇄circumcision, noun.
1a. the act of circumcising.
b. the rite of circumcising. In the Jewish ritual, a boy is circumcised when he is eight days old as a symbol of the covenant which, according to the Bible, God made with Abraham.
2. (Fi - circumcision⇄expr. the Circumcision, a Christian church festival on January 1, commemorating the circumcising of Jesus as prescribed by Jewish law, on the eighth day after his birth.
Ex. In our own day the secular features of the opening of the New Year interfe - circumcision⇄expr. the circumcision, in the Bible:
a. the Jews; the Hebrew nation.
Ex. And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him (Acts 11:2).
b. the chosen of God; the spiritually pure.
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