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Definition of Prepuces

1. prepuce [n] - See also: prepuce

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prepuces

Literary usage of Prepuces

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1899)
"... for Sir J. Paget has seen five sons of a lady and one son of her sister with adherent prepuces; and one of these boys was affected in a manner " which ..."

2. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile: In the Years 1768, 1769,1770 by James Bruce (1813)
"And it would be the grossest absurdity to send Samson to bring, as tokens of the slain, so many foreskins, or prepuces, of the Philistines, if, as Herodotus ..."

3. Larcher's Notes on Herodotus: Historical and Critical Comments on the by Pierre-Henri Larcher (1844)
"It would be the grossest absurdity,1 says he, ' to send Samson to bring, as tokens of his victory, so many foreskins or prepuces of the Philistines, if, ..."

4. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present: Moral and by Peter Charles Remondino (1891)
"Bergmann argues that the Israelites were given to like practices, and cites the incident wherein David brought two hundred prepuces—as evidence of his ..."

5. History of Circumcision, from the Earliest Times to the Present: Moral and by Peter Charles Remondino (1891)
"Bergmann argues that the Israelites were given to like practices, and cites the incident wherein David brought two hundred prepuces—as evidence of his ..."

6. History of Circumcision, from the Earliest Times to the Present: Moral and by Peter Charles Remondino (1900)
"Bergmann argues that the Israelites were given to like practices, and cites the incident wherein David brought two hundred prepuces—as evidence of his ..."

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