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Uncircumcised

//ʌnˈsɜːkəmsaɪzd// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not circumcised, intact. not-comparable

    "A child who is born to an uncircumcised girl is not allowed to live; as one old woman said, 'only women, not children can have children'"

  2. 2
    Not Jewish or not Muslim; gentile. broadly, not-comparable

    "Under his ſpecial eie / Abſtemious I [Samson] grew up and thriv'd amain; / He led me on to mightieſt deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Againſt the uncircumciſ'd, our enemies."

  3. 3
    Spiritually impure; irreligious. not-comparable

    "Ye ſtiffenecked ãd of vncircumciſed hertes ãd eares: ye have allwayes reſiſted agaynſte the holy gooſt: as youre fathers did / ſo do ye."

  4. 4
    Closed in, so as to work imperfectly. not-comparable, obsolete

    "Moises answeride bifore the Lord, Lo! the children of Israel here not me, and hou schal Farao here, moost sithen Y am vncircumcidid in lippis?"

Etymology

From Middle English uncircumcised, equivalent to un- + circumcised. Subsidiary definitions are much influenced by traditions of the Abrahamic religions.

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