| Circumcision 1. (n.) The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males, or the internal labia of females. 2. (n.) The Jews, as a circumcised people. 3. (n.) Rejection of the sins of the flesh; spiritual purification, and acceptance of the Christian faith. Thesaurus Entries adoption, agape, asperges, aspersion, auricular confession, bar mitzvah, bas mitzvah, celebration, confession, confirmation, conversion, high celebration, incense, invocation, invocation of saints, kiss of peace, lesser litany, litany, love feast, lustration, new birth, new life, pax, processional, rebirth, reciting the rosary, redeemedness, redemption, reformation, regeneration, salvation, second birth, spiritual purification, telling of beads, the confessional, the confessionary |