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Definition of Circumnavigated
1. circumnavigate [v] - See also: circumnavigate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Circumnavigated
Literary usage of Circumnavigated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sketch of the Origin and Progress of Steam Navigation from Authentic Documents by Bennet Woodcroft (1848)
"The first, and even up to the present time, the only steam vessel that has
circumnavigated the globe, is her Majesty's steam sloop of war Driver. ..."
2. Sir John Franklin by Augustus Henry Beesly (1881)
"... Ships—Rewards offered for their Relief by Government—Their Track in 1845—Cornwallis
Island circumnavigated—-Winter at Beechey Island—Deaths of Braine, ..."
3. A Brief History of the Wesleyan Missions on the West Coast of Africa by William Fox (1851)
"AFRICA, AND THE AFRICAN SLAVE-TRADE. ftv whom and at what Time Africa was
circumnavigated—The Discovery of America, and the Doubling of the Cape of Good ..."
4. Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish, and Dampier: Including an by Christian Isobel Johnstone, Johnstone, Mrs (1831)
"... having circumnavigated the Globe—Expedition of Loy- asa—Discoveries of
Saavedra—Voyage of Villalobos—Spanish Settlement in the Philippines—Discoveries ..."
5. Maps Reproduced as Glass Transparencies: Selected to Represent the by Edward Luther Stevenson (1913)
"... traits of the four men who, prior to the engraving of hia map, had circumnavigated
the globe. An interesting record, inscribed northeast of Europe, ..."
6. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"Drake circumnavigated the globe. The " Collection of Voyages," which was published
by Hakluyt, not only disclosed the vastness of the world itself, ..."
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