circumciser
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
circumcise + -er
Noun[edit]
circumciser (plural circumcisers)
- A person who performs circumcision.
- 1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 12:
- 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 spontaneously by the patient himself at the moment of the release.
- 2007 February 23, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Circumcision’s Anti-AIDS Effect Found Greater Than First Thought”, in New York Times[1]:
- He said President Bush’s $15 billion AIDS initiative and the World Health Organization were considering paying for circumcisions in high-risk countries, but must work out what training and equipment they would require circumcisers to have.
Synonyms[edit]
- Judaism: mohel
Translations[edit]
one who performs circumcision
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