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▪ I. surrounding, vbl. n.|səˈraʊndɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
I. The action of the verb surround.
†1. Overflowing, inundation. Obs.
1449in Fulman Rerum Anglic. Script. Vett. (1684) I. 524 Because of surundyng of waters. 1572Huloet, Surrunding, or ouerflowing of water.
2. The fact of being around or encompassing. rare—0.
1775in Ash.
II. That which surrounds.
3. pl. Those things which surround a person or thing, or in the midst of which he or it (habitually) is; things around (collectively); environment.
1861Q. Rev. Oct. 471 We know more about Plutarch's personal history and surroundings [etc.]. 1861Smiles Engineers vi. i. II. 6 The place remained comparatively rural in point of size and surroundings. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life xii. i. (1876) 431 That which we are, is due to the accidents of our surroundings. 1884F. Temple Relat. Relig. & Sci. iii. (1885) 81 My character..has not come out of the antecedents and surroundings according to any fixed law. 1891Farrar Darkn. & Dawn lxii, We cannot blame him too severely if, in such an age and such surroundings, he had been stained by the vices in the midst of which he lived.
4. A number of persons standing around; a body of attendants; entourage.
1877Froude Short Stud. (1883) IV. i. ii. 22 The wealthiest peer in England did not..appear in public with a more princely surrounding. 1891Daily News 22 Jan. 3/4 Their games were watched with much interest by a surrounding of Southerns.
b. pl. Persons surrounding or attending upon a person.
1894Daily News 31 Dec., I have now received particulars of the death from the immediate surroundings of the King. 1907Verney Mem. I. 118 They lived on their estates and did their duty by their surroundings.
▪ II. suˈrrounding, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That surrounds.
1. That is (or are) around; encompassing, circumjacent.
1634Milton Comus 403 And let a single helpless maiden pass Uninjur'd in this wilde surrounding wast. 1667― P.L. i. 346 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding Fires. 1704Pope Windsor For. 262 The bow'ry mazes, and surrounding greens. 1781Cowper Hope 305 Lord paramount of the surrounding plains. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho i, The beauty of the surrounding scene. 1806A. Hunter Culina (ed. 3) 197 Serve up in a deep dish, with the surrounding sauce. 1828–43Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 138 They ravaged the surrounding country with merciless execution. 1845Stocqueler Handbk Brit. India (1854) 3 Venice..raised herself..to an eminence that excited the jealousy..of surrounding nations. 1890Science-Gossip XXVI. 209 The ammonia is rapidly oxidised in the soil into nitric acid, which at once combines with the surrounding bases to form nitrates.
†2. Moving round, circling. Obs. rare—1.
1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 16 They will expatiate and dance the Hay in circling motions, and surrounding vagaries. |