[SUB- 2.] The cutting of an opening into the urethra on the under side of the penis: a practice prevalent among some savage tribes. So Subincise v. trans., to perform subincision upon.
1899. Spencer & Gillen, Native Tribes Central Australia, 263. The rite of sub-incision … has frequently been alluded to by Curr and other writers under the name of the ‘terrible rite.’ Ibid. (1904), North. Tribes Central Australia, xi. 354. It was decided by the old men that, towards the close of these [ceremonies] three young men should be subincised.
