Definition of "circumcises" [circumcises]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of circumcise. (verb)

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• "Catholics believe that Jesus' mother's body was taken into heaven; Many Jews hold a bris ceremony where a rabbi circumcises an 8 day-old boy in a room full of guests."
• "I quite agree that the violence gets rather gratuitous, particularly when Samson forcibly circumcises a number of Philistines."
• "For the same reason, I suspect, God's announcement to Moses that every firstborn male in Egypt will die is followed without pause in the text by the mysterious passage in which God appears to attack Moses's own firstborn son, who is saved only when the boy's mother suddenly circumcises him with a piece of flint Exodus 4:25."