Definition of Circumambient

1. a. Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.

Definition of Circumambient

1. Adjective. Ascribing to all aspects of; encompassing. ¹

2. Adjective. Surrounding. ¹

3. Adverb. in a circumambient manner ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Circumambient

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumambient

circulus venosus halleri
circulus venosus ridleyi
circulus zinnii
circum-
circumadjacent
circumagitate
circumagitated
circumagitates
circumagitating
circumalveolar fixation
circumambages
circumambagious
circumambience
circumambiencies
circumambiency
circumambient (current term)
circumambiently
circumambulate
circumambulated
circumambulates
circumambulating
circumambulation
circumambulations
circumambulator
circumanal
circumanal glands
circumarctic
circumarticular
circumaural
circumaxillary

Literary usage of Circumambient

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Universal Magazine (1795)
"... decorate the circumambient ground with animating and dazzling groups. The marquees, and pavilions of the ..."

2. The Cabinet of Arts: Or, General Instructor in Arts, Science, Trade by Hewson Clarke, John Dougall (1817)
"It appears, however, that they can have no effect when a machine i» only moved by the wind alone, because the circumambient air is at rest in respect to the ..."

3. The Microscope and Its Revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter, William Henry Dallinger (1891)
".Scarcely any two >peci- mens are precisely alik^ as to the mode in which the first rin-- originato. from t ' circumambient segment' ; for sometime- a score ..."

4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"16, the following parts can be detected ; a primordial chamber a, surrounded by a circumambient chamber b, with which it communicates by an aperture, d, ..."

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