uncircumcised

形容词 adj.
/ʌnˈsɜːkəmsaɪzd/    /ʌnˈsɝkəmsaɪzd/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not circumcised, intact. not-comparable
    — 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'
  2. Not Jewish or not Muslim; gentile. broadly,not-comparable
    — 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.
  3. Spiritually impure; irreligious. not-comparable
    — Ye ſtiffenecked ãd of vncircumciſed hertes ãd eares: ye have allwayes reſiſted agaynſte the holy gooſt: as youre fathers did / ſo do ye.
  4. Closed in, so as to work imperfectly. not-comparable,obsolete
    — 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