uncircumcised
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ʌnˈsɜːkəmsaɪzd/
  • (GA) IPA: /ʌnˈsɝkəmsaɪzd/
Adjective

uncircumcised (not comparable)

  1. Not circumcised, intact.
    • 1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, Abacus 2010, p. 30:
      In my tradition, an uncircumcised male cannot be heir to his father's wealth, cannot marry or officiate in tribal rituals.
  2. (by extension) Not Jewish or Muslim; gentile
    • 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […]”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: Printed by J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398 ↗, lines 637–638, page 42 ↗:
      Under his ſpecial eie / Abſtemious I [{{w
    • 1939, Katherine Jones translation of Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, Chapter II:
      Even to-day the Turk hurls abuse at the Christian by calling him "an uncircumcised dog."
  3. Spiritually impure; irreligious.
    • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts VII:
      Ye stiffenecked and of uncircumcised hertes and eares: ye have allwayes resisted agaynste the holy goost: as youre fathers did, so do ye.
    • 1611, King James Version, Ezekiel 44:7:
      In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.
    • 1624, John Donne, "Sermon CXX: Preached at St. Dunstan's upon New Year's Day 1624":
      The Scripture speaks of uncircumcised hearts, and uncircumcised lips, and uncircumcised ears ; and our eyes in looking, and coveting, and our hands in reaching to that which is not ours, are as far uncircumcised as ears, or lips, or hearts : therefore we are to carry this circumcision all over; We must circumcise, says St. Bernard, in came, peccatum, the flesh, the body, the substance of the sin, in cute, operimentum, in the skin, all covers, and palliations, and disguises, and extenuations of the sin; and, in sanguine incentimm, in the blood all fomentations and provocations to that sin: the sin itself, the circumstances of the sin, the relapses to or towards that sin must be circumcised ...
  4. (obsolete) Closed in, so as to work imperfectly
    • 1382–84, John Wycliffe, Exodus 6:12:
      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?
    • 1382–84, John Wycliffe, Jeremiah 6:10:
      To whom schal Y speke, and to whom schal Y seie witnessing, that he here? Lo! the eeris of hem ben vncircumcidid, and thei moun not here; lo! the word of the Lord is maad to hem in to dispit, and thei schulen not resseiue it.
    • 1537, William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale, Exodus 6:12:
      And Moses spake before the Lorde saynge: beholde, the childern of Israell herken not vnto me, how than shall Pharao heare me: seynge that I haue vncircumcised lippes.
    • 1611, King James Version, Exodus 6:12:
      And Moses spake before the Lord, saying, Behold, the children of Israel have not hearkened unto me; how then shall Pharaoh hear me, who am of uncircumcised lips?
    • 1611, King James Version, Jeremiah 6:10:
      To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the Lord is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Synonyms Translations
  • Russian: необре́занный



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