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LNS

circumsecō, circumsecāre, -, -

circumseco

verb (1^st conjugation)

to cut or pare around
To circumcise

Abbreviations

circum-seco, no perf., sectum āre, v. a., to cut or pare around: radices vitium, Cato, R. R. 114, 1: ungulas, Col. 6, 6, 4: tuberculum ferro, id. 7, 5, 13: aliquid serrulā, to saw around, * Cic. Clu. 64, 180: circumsecta aluta, Scrib. Comp. 229.

—* To circumcise, of the Jews (usu. circumcido), Suet. Dom. 12.