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Noun
supercision (uncountable)
- Any of several forms of incision of the foreskin practised as an initiation ceremony in parts of Polynesia and the Philippines.
Derived terms
References
- “Circumcision in the South Pacific”, in CIRCLIST - Circumcision Preferences and Experiences, 2007, archived from the original on 9 April 2007
- Glick, Leonard B. (2009) “Real Men: Foreskin Cutting and Male Identity in the Philippines”, in Circumcision and Human Rights, →DOI, pages 155–174