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Prepuce   Listen
noun
Prepuce  n.  (Anat.) The foreskin.






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"Prepuce" Quotes from Famous Books



... confounded and the reason is amazed upon viewing the ridiculous customs and pitiful means, which the ministers of the gods have invented in every country to purify souls, and render heaven favourable. Here they cut off part of a child's prepuce, to secure for him divine benevolence; there, they pour water upon his head, to cleanse him of crimes, which he could not as yet have committed. In one place, they command him to plunge into a river, whose waters have the power ...
— Good Sense - 1772 • Paul Henri Thiry, Baron D'Holbach



Words linked to "Prepuce" :   cutis, button, tegument, phallus, penis, clit, clitoris, foreskin, member



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