ppl. a. [f. CIRCUMCISE v. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Having the prepuce cut off; that has undergone circumcision. (Allusively used for ‘Jewish’ or ‘Mohammedan.’)

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1604.  Shaks., Oth., V. ii. 355. I tooke by th’ throat the circumcised Dogge.

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1663.  J. Spencer, Prodigies (1665), 153. Maimonides (one of the most learned and sober Doctors of the circumcised Nation).

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1671.  Milton, Samson, 975. My name, perhaps, among the Circumcised In Dan, in Judah,… may stand defamed.

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1802.  Southey, Monodramas, La Caba, 68. Moor! turbaned misbeliever! Circumcised traitor!

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  b.  fig. Spiritually chastened or purified.

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1828.  E. Irving, Last Days, 360. With an open but circumcised ear, they drink in the melody of nature’s various song.

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  † 2.  Cut or shorn round. Obs.

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., 475. Disguised in some uncouth habit, with circumcised crowns and moaped or bloated looks.

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1761.  Fitzgerald, in Phil. Trans., LII. 74. The growth of the circumcised branches.

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  † 3.  Cut short, curtailed, circumscribed. Obs.

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1561.  R. Cheney, Let. Cecil, 16 April, in Strype, Ann. Ref., I. App. xxiii. 61. My circumcised benefice.

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1617.  Hales, Gold. Rem. (1659), 12. By this circumcised, narrow and penurious form of study.

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