Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who performs circumcision.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who performs circumcision.
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- noun A person who performs
circumcision
Etymologies
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Examples
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These include the day that 5-year-old Hirsi Ali and her 6-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister underwent circumcisions arranged by their grandmother, with the job done in the author’s case by a man with scissors “who was probably an itinerant traditional circumciser from the blacksmith clan.”
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These include the day that 5-year-old Hirsi Ali and her 6-year-old brother and 4-year-old sister underwent circumcisions arranged by their grandmother, with the job done in the author’s case by a man with scissors “who was probably an itinerant traditional circumciser from the blacksmith clan.”
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Zigua kungwi, ma - "one who has had a certain illness previously"; Bondei (Seuta) kungwi, plus same term in Swahili and Ruvu, as well as in Nyanja namkungwi; Proto-Kaskazi * mkunga "midwife/birth attendant"; also in Lambya and Mabia; Gogo munkunga "circumciser," "sponsor of girl initiates."
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In 2001 when it enacted a draconian law requiring a medical doctor or an anesthesia nurse to accompany a registered circumciser and for an anesthetic to be applied to a baby beforehand.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: San Francisco's Curious Attachment to the Male Foreskin Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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The surgeon was so inspired that he went out and studied to become a certified mohel ritual Jewish circumciser.
Joshua Stanton: Making Male Circumcision Humane: A Jewish Moral Imperative Joshua Stanton 2011
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Like all her female relatives, Dirie was circumcised as a small girl, by a traditional female circumciser, an event the film dramatizes.
Film Tracks Woman's Path from Desert Nomad to Supermodel Activist 2011
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Like all her female relatives, Dirie was circumcised as a small girl, by a traditional female circumciser, an event the film dramatizes.
Film Tracks Woman's Path from Desert Nomad to Supermodel Activist 2011
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In 2001 when it enacted a draconian law requiring a medical doctor or an anesthesia nurse to accompany a registered circumciser and for an anesthetic to be applied to a baby beforehand.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: San Francisco's Curious Attachment to the Male Foreskin Rabbi Shmuley Boteach 2011
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Like all her female relatives, Dirie was circumcised as a small girl, by a traditional female circumciser, an event the film dramatizes.
Film Tracks Woman's Path from Desert Nomad to Supermodel Activist 2011
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The surgeon was so inspired that he went out and studied to become a certified mohel ritual Jewish circumciser.
Joshua Stanton: Making Male Circumcision Humane: A Jewish Moral Imperative Joshua Stanton 2011
bilby commented on the word circumciser
"The endurance of pain, especially in poor communities where pain and discomfort are daily realities, is another important aspect of beautification/mutilation. Scarification is valued not only because it is symmetrically placed about the body and not only because it implies the achievement of new status, but because it hurts. Where survival is only achieved by constant effort, stoicism and willpower are immensely important. The young woman who lies unflinching while the circumciser grinds her clitoris between two stones is proving that she will make a good wife, equal to all the anguish of child-bearing and daily toil, not only to the witnesses of her bravery, more importantly, to herself."
- 'One man's mutilation is another man's beautification', Germaine Greer in The Madwoman's Underclothes.
September 1, 2008