uncircumcised
形容词 adj.
英 /ʌnˈsɜːkəmsaɪzd/
美 /ʌnˈsɝkəmsaɪzd/
英文释义
形容词 adj.
-
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'
-
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.
-
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.
-
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?
词汇关系
词源
From Middle English uncircumcised, equivalent to un- + circumcised. Subsidiary definitions are much influenced by traditions of the Abrahamic religions.
0 次浏览
数据来源: Wiktionary