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of these other Catholic Churches have ever recognised the supremacy of Rome.—Eb.] Circles. See Church, and Stones. Circumcision. A strange ceremony of mutilation among Egyptians, Phoenicians, Hebrews, Arabs, Africans, and Polynesians; unknown among Aryans and Turanians. The Kopts in Egypt still observe it. The Aby in i ans took it from either Jews (Falishas), Arabs, or Kopts. It is characteristic of Jews and Moslems, and found also among Zulus and Austral i ans, It appears to be distinctive of Semitic and earlier allied Negrito races.