Assertion: circumcision | /r/HasProperty | practised as jewish rite
Facets:
value: after having for centuries
type: TEMPORAL
value: distinctively
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: After having for centuries been practised as a distinctively Jewish rite, circumcision appeared to many enlightened Jews of modern times to be no longer in keeping with the dictates of a religious truth intended for humanity at large; and its abolition was advocated, and made the shibboleth of the "Friends of Reform" ("Reformfreunde") in Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1843.