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Definition: CIRCUMCISED |
CIRCUMCISEDImperative & past participle1. Of Circumcise |
Date "CIRCUMCISED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Multilingual Slang | English (clipped, cut), German (beschnitten). (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CIRCUMCISED |
| English words defined with "CIRCUMCISED": Uncircumcised, Uncircumcision, Unforeskinned. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "CIRCUMCISED": Abrahamites ♦ Circumcised Brethren ♦ Gibeah-haaraloth ♦ lop cock, lopcock. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "CIRCUMCISED": Circumcise. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He's just been circumcised. (East Is East; writing credit: Ayub Khan-Din) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Books | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Minorities | Indonesia | Both male and female converts later were forced to undergo circumcision to prove that they were genuine Muslims, despite the fact that Muslim women in Maluku were not customarily circumcised. (references) |
Women | Uganda | An international human rights NGO offered cattle, goats, and money for scholarships to Sabiny parents who did not allow their daughters to be circumcised during the 2000 ceremony. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "CIRCUMCISED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 67.39% of the time. "CIRCUMCISED" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 67.39% | 31 | 62,296 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 23.91% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 8.7% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 46 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "CIRCUMCISED". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Carmel | N/A | Biblical | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmella | N/A | English | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmen | N/A | English | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmela | N/A | Italian | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmina | N/A | Italian | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmine | N/A | Italian | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmo | N/A | Portuguese | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmela | N/A | Spanish | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmelita | N/A | Spanish | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmelo | N/A | Spanish | Circumcised lamb |
| Carmen | N/A | Spanish | Circumcised lamb |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "CIRCUMCISED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | مطهر (abluent, abstergent, antiseptic, cleaner, decontaminator, detergent, disinfectant, disinfected, purifier, sterilizer), مختون. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | обрязан. (various references) | |
French | circoncis, purifié. (various references) | |
German | beschnitt (pruned). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מול. (various references) | |
Hungarian | körülmetélt. (various references) | |
Indonesian | berkhitan (be circumcised). (various references) | |
Manx | chymmylit. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ircumcisedcay.(various references) | |
Spanish | circunciso. (various references) | |
Turkish | sünnetli. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 17, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En tw kairw thV hmeraV ekeinhV perietmhqh abraam kai ismahl o uioV autou |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Eadem die circumcisus est Abraham et Ismahel filius eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And the same day was Abraham circumsidid, and Ysmael his sone, |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | The selfe same daye was Abraha circucised and Ismael his sonne. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | In the selfsame day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | In the same day was Abraham circumcised, and Ishmael his son. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Abraham and Ishmael, his son, underwent circumcision on that very day. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 17, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | Sa maong adlawa gicircuncidahan si Abraham ug si Ismael nga anak niya. |
| Croatian | Tako su toga istog dana bili obrezani Abraham i njegov sin Jišmael; |
| Danish | Selvsamme Dag blev Abraham og hans Søn Ismael omskåret; |
| Dutch | Even op dezen zelfden dag werd Abraham besneden, en Ismael, zijn zoon. |
| Finnish | Aabraham ja hänen poikansa Ismael ympärileikattiin sinä samana päivänä; |
| French | Ce même jour, Abraham fut circoncis, ainsi qu`Ismaël, son fils. |
| German | Eben auf einen Tag wurden sie alle beschnitten, Abraham, sein Sohn Ismael, |
| Haitian Creole | Yo tout de, yo sikonsi yo menm jou |
| Hungarian | Ugyanazon napon metéltetett körûl Ábrahám és Ismáel az õ fia. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Mereka disunat pada hari yang sama, |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Pada sama sehari Ibrahim dan Ismail, anaknya itu, disunatkanlah. |
| Italian | In quello stesso giorno furono circoncisi Abramo e Ismaele suo figlio. |
| Maori | No taua rangi pu ano i kotia ai a Aperahama, raua ko tana tama, ko Ihimaera. |
| Norwegian | Denne samme dag blev de omskåret, både Abraham og Ismael, hans sønn; |
| Portuguese | No mesmo dia foram circuncidados Abraão e seu filho Ismael. |
| Rumanian | Avraam wi fiul squ Ismael au fost tqiayi kmprejur chiar kn ziua aceea. |
| Spanish | En el mismo día fueron circuncidados Abraham e Ismael su hijo. |
| Swedish | På denna samma dag omskuros Abraham och hans son Ismael; |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words ending with "CIRCUMCISED": uncircumcised. (additional references) | |
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"CIRCUMCISED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: circumcize, circumcized, circumsiced, circumsise, circumsised, circuscised. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "CIRCUMCISED" (pronounced ser"kumsī'zd) |
| 4 | -s ī' z d | anglicized, capsized, criticized, downsized, emphasized, excised, exercised, fantasized, hypothesized, metastasized, midsized, ostracized, outsized, politicized, publicized, romanticized, synthesized, undersized, unexercised. |
| 3 | -ī' z d | accessorized, advertised, agonized, aluminized, amortized, analyzed, annualized, antagonized, apologized, authorized, balkanized, brutalized, burglarized, capitalized, caramelized, carbonized, catalyzed, categorized, centralized, characterized, civilized, collateralized, collectivized, colonized, colorized, commercialized, compromised, computerized, containerized, creolized, criminalized, crystallized, customized, decentralized, demilitarized, demobilized, democratized, demonized, demoralized, denationalized, denuclearized, departmentalized, depressurized, deputized, desensitized, destabilized, digitized, internalized, ironized, itemized, jeopardized, legalized, legitimized, liberalized, lionized, localized, magnetized, disenfranchised, disorganized, dramatized, editorialized, energized, enfranchised, epitomized, equalized, eulogized, familiarized, federalized, fertilized, fictionalized, finalized, formalized, fossilized, galvanized, generalized, globalized, harmonized, hellenized, heroized, homogenized, hospitalized, humanized, hydrolyzed, hypnotized, idealized, idolized, immobilized, immunized, improvised, industrialized, marginalized, materialized, maximized, mechanized, memorialized, memorized, mesmerized, militarized, miniaturized, minimized, mischaracterized, mobilized, modernized, monopolized, motorized, nationalized, naturalized, neutralized, nonunionized, normalized, organized, oxidized, paralyzed, pasteurized, patronized, penalized, personalized, plagiarized, polarized, polymerized, popularized, pressurized, prioritized, privatized, professionalized, proselytized, pulverized, radicalized, randomized, rationalized, realized, reauthorized, recapitalized, recognized, regionalized, reorganized, revitalized, revolutionized, rubberized, sanitized, scandalized, scrutinized, securitized, sensitized, serialized, socialized, specialized, stabilized, standardized, sterilized, stigmatized, stylized, subsidized, summarized, supervised, symbolized, sympathized, synchronized, tantalized, televised, terrorized, theorized, traumatized, trivialized, unamortized, unauthorized, undercapitalized, underutilized, unionized, unorganized, unrealized, unrecognized, unsubsidized, unsupervised, urbanized, utilized, vandalized, vaporized, visualized, westernized, winterized. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-c-d-e-i-i-m-r-s-u" | |
-1 letter: circumcise. | |
-4 letters: ceriums, cimices, cruised, dimeric, miscued, murices, sciurid, suicide. | |
-5 letters: cercis, cercus, cerium, cesium, ciders, circus, crimes, crisic, cruces, crudes, cruise, curies, cursed, demurs, dermic, dermis, dicers, dicier, dimers, imides, irides, irised, medics, medius, miscue, murids, muscid, scried, sicced, surimi, uremic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-c-c-d-e-i-i-m-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: circumscribed, uncircumcised. | |
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