circumcise -
v.tr. 1 cut off the foreskin, as a Jewish or Muslim rite or a surgical operation.
2 cut off the clitoris (and sometimes the labia), usu. as a religious
rite.
3 Bibl. purify (the heart etc.).
[ME f. OF f. L circumcidere circumcis- (as CIRCUM-, caedere cut)] 
