1840, William Cave, Lives of the most eminent fathers of the church that flourished in the first four centuries, Witness the yesterday's sacrifice of that Abrahamical old man, who, being newly returned from banishment, ye knocked on the head at noon-day in the middle of the street, whose murderers yet, at our intercession, were spared and pardoned.
1841, John Lauris Blake and Jehoshaphat Aspin, A view of the world: as exhibited in the manners, costumes, & characteristics of all nations, They indeed practise circumcision, on which account, they have been supposed to be descended from the Abrahamical stock ; but they have lost all tradition of its origin, and assign custom only as the reason of the operation.
