Law vs Circ - What's the difference?
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(lb) The body of rules and standards issued by a government, or to be applied by courts and similar authorities.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish,I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
(lb) A written or understood rule that concerns behaviours and their consequences. Laws are usually associated with mores.
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A well-established, observed physical characteristic or behavior of nature. The word is used to simply identify "what happens," without implying any explanatory mechanism or causation. Compare to theory.
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(lb) A statement that is true under specified conditions.
A category of English "common law" petitions that request monetary relief, as opposed to relief in forms other than a monetary judgment; compare to "equity".
(lb) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the MCC.
The police.
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(lb) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to chaos.
An oath, as in the presence of a court. See wager of law.
(obsolete) a tumulus of stones
a hill
* 1892 , Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
(informal) Circumcision.
* 2001 , Richard Gordon, Great Medical Mysteries , House of Stratus (2001), ISBN 1842325183,
* 2011 , Michelle Au, This Won't Hurt a Bit (and Other White Lies): My Education in Medicine and Motherhood , Grand Central Publishing (2011), ISBN 9780446574419,
* 2011 , Maggie Kozel, The Color of Atmosphere: One Doctor's Journey In and Out of Medicine , Chelsea Green Publishing (2011), ISBN 9781603582971,
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(informal) To circumcise.
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*:If a person was circed they have to live with it, or attempt partial restoration, but on the whole IMO a whole penis is more beautiful than a mutilated one.
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As a proper noun law
is or law can be , perhaps originally meaning someone who lives near a burial mound or law can be (judaism) the torah.As a noun circ is
(obsolete) an amphitheatrical circle for sports; a circus or circ can be (informal) circumcision.As a verb circ is
(informal) to circumcise.law
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(wikipedia law)Etymology 1
From (etyl) lawe, and gesetnes. More at (l).Noun
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.
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* above the law * against the law * a law unto oneself * * Avogadro’s law * Beer-Lambert law * Boyle’s law * bylaw * canon law * Charles’ law * civil law * common law * contract law * corn laws * Coulomb’s law * criminal law * de Morgan’s laws * employment law * family law * Faraday’s laws * federal law * feudal law * Fourier’s law * Gauss’s law * Graham’s law * Gresham’s law * Henry’s law * Hooke’s law * Hubble’s law * international law * into law * Kepler’s laws of planetary motion * Kerchoff’s laws * law and order * lawful * lawgiver * lawlike * law lord * lawmaker, law-maker * law of cosines * law of large numbers * law of sines * law of small numbers * law of tangents * law of the land * law of the tongue * lay down the law * long arm of the law * lynch law * martial law * Moore’s law * Murphy's law * natural law * Newton’s law of cooling * Newton’s law of gravitation * Newton’s laws of motion * Ohm’s law * physical law * power law * Poiseuille’s law * possession is nine points of the law * property law * Roman law * statuate (statute)+law=statuate law (US) * state law * statute law (Commonwealth English) * Stefan-Boltzmann law * Stokes’ law * sus law * take the law into one’s own hands * the law is an ass * three laws of robotics * unwritten law * Zipf’s lawSee also
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From (etyl) . Also spelled low.Noun
(en noun)- You might climb the Law [...] and behold the face of many counties.
Etymology 3
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Etymology 1
See (circus).Etymology 2
From circumcision/circumcise by shortening.Noun
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- During the pre-NHS 1930s, circumcision was as fashionable among the British middle class as confirmation. Breech deliveries were said to be popular with both obstetrician and anaesthetist, a boy assuring them early in the birth of 'a couple of guineas next week for the circ .'
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- The circ is progressing apace when, without warning, one of the nurses bursts in from outside, and I mean bursts'' in, as opposed to entering soundlessly and unobtrusively as we all try to (with the exception of the attending surgeons, who ''always burst in), and tells us, "Someone just crashed a plane into one of the Twin Towers."
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- Ironically, our Japanese-born colleague Seiji, who came from a culture that did not circumcise, had no problem with it. In fact, he was amazing to behold. Seiji could finish a "slice and dice," as we called it, before I could even get my gloves on. Bob and I would change every poopy, slimy diaper in that nursery just to stall until Seiji finished the circs .
Verb
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