circumambient

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23
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30
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13

Definition of circumambient

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Including all aspects of; encompassing.
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adj

  1. Including all aspects of; encompassing.
  2. Surrounding.
    “Thus gaiety and cheerfulness prevail, / Spreading from young to old, from old to young, / And no one seems to want his share.—Immense / Is the recess, the circumambient world / Magnificent, by which they are embraced: […]”
    “Philip seemed really to be born again. He breathed the circumambient air as though he had never breathed it before, and he took a child's pleasure in all the facts of the world.”
    “Groups of citizens—broad-browed Roman colonists and coarse-haired Romanised natives, together with obvious hybrids of the two strains, alike clad in cheap woollen togas—and sprinklings of helmeted legionaries and coarse-mantled, black-bearded tribesmen of the circumambient Vascones—all thronged the few paved streets and forum; moved by some vague and ill-defined uneasiness.”
    “The growling circumambient toils of London around them fadedbefore the calm of these innocent precincts.”

adv

  1. In a circumambient manner.

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Etymology

From Latin circum (“around”) + ambiō, from amb- (“both side”) + eō (“go”), literally "go on both sides of". Synchronically circum- + ambient.

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