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circumcisers

circumcisers is the plural of circumciser.

Meaning of circumciser

Noun

circumciser (plural circumcisers)

  1. A person who performs circumcision.
    • 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...1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 12
    Synonyms:
    posthectomist, mohel

Questions about circumcisers

What is circumcisers the plural of?
Circumcisers is the plural of circumciser.

Words near circumcisers in the dictionary

  1. circumcisedness
  2. circumciseds
  3. circumcisee
  4. circumcisees
  5. circumciser
  6. circumcisers
  7. circumcises
  8. circumciseth
  9. circumcising
  10. circumcision
  11. circumcisional

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