Circumciser - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: circumciserCircumciser
One who performs circumcision...
Berith
the Jewish rite of circumcision...
Bris
the Jewish rite of circumcision...
Brith
the Jewish rite of circumcision...
Circumcise
To cut off the prepuce of foreskin of in the case of males and the internal labia of in the case of females...
Circumcision
The act of cutting off the prepuce or foreskin of males or the internal labia of females...
Posthetomy
Circumcision...
Feasts
Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
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