Circumciser
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Circumciser is a noun meaning A person who performs circumcision.
Meaning
A person who performs circumcision.
Example Sentences
He said President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative and the World Health Organization were considering paying for circumcisions in high-risk countries, but must work out what training and equipment they would require circumcisers to have.
The psychoanalyst has to come along, at last, to assert again the tried wisdom of the older, forward-looking teachings of the masked medicine dancers and the witch-doctor-circumcisers; whereupon we find, as in the dream of the serpent bite, that the ageless initiation symbolism is produced spontaneously by the patient himself at the moment of the release.
Word Forms
- circumcisers
Synonyms for circumciser
Depending on context, synonyms include posthectomist, mohel.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include circumcisionist, circumcisor, circumscriber, castrator, castratee, excisor.
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