uncircumcised

Adjective

uncircumcised (not comparable)

1. Not circumcised, intact.
   • A child who is born to an uncircumcised girl is not allowed to live; as one old woman said, 'only women, not children can have children'1986, Henrietta L. Moore, Space, Text and Gender, →ISBN
   • In my tradition, an uncircumcised male cannot be heir to his father's wealth, cannot marry or officiate in tribal rituals.1994, Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, London: Abacus, published 2010, page 30
2. (broadly) Not Jewish or not Muslim; gentile.
   • Under his ſpecial eie / Abſtemious I [Samson] grew up and thriv'd amain; / He led me on to mightieſt deeds / Above the nerve of mortal arm / Againſt the uncircumciſ'd, our enemies.1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 42, lines...
   • Even to-day the Turk hurls abuse at the Christian by calling him "an uncircumcised dog."1939, Katherine Jones translation of Sigmund Freud, Moses and Monotheism, Chapter II
3. Spiritually impure; irreligious.
   • Ye ſtiffenecked ãd of vncircumciſed hertes ãd eares: ye have allwayes reſiſted agaynſte the holy gooſt: as youre fathers did / ſo do ye.1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Acts vij:[51], folio clxiiij, recto
   • In that ye have brought into my sanctuary strangers, uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, to pollute it, even my house, when ye offer my bread, the fat and the blood, and they have broken my covenant because of all your abominations.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 44:7
4. (obsolete) Closed in, so as to work imperfectly.
   • Moises answeride bifore the Lord, Lo! the children of Israel here not me, and hou schal Farao here, moost sithen Y am vncircumcidid in lippis?1382–84, John Wycliffe, Exodus 6:12
   • To whom schal Y speke, and to whom schal Y seie witnessing, that he here? Lo! the eeris of hem ben vncircumcidid, and thei moun not here; lo! the word of the Lord is maad to hem in to dispit, and thei schulen not resseiue it.1382–84, John Wycliffe, Jeremiah 6:10