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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
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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