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circumambient, a.|sɜːkəmˈæmbɪənt|
[f. circum- + ambient (or its L. original).]
1. Going or extending round; surrounding, encompassing, environing.
1641Wilkins Math. Magick ii. v. (1648) 186 The circumambient coldnesse towards the sides of the Vessell. 1669Phil. Trans. IV. 1087 An Universal Tendency of Circum-ambient Bodies to the Center. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. (1858) 3 In the immeasurable circumambient realm of Nothingness and Night. 1861A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. iii. 92 The circumambient aisle encircling the apse.
b. esp. Said of the air or other circumfused fluid, or medium.
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 14 The air; which is an element movable and circumambient. 1679Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 236 The air most immediately circumambient of the terraqueous globe. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. ii. i. 40 The pressure of the Circumambient Air. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) I. 345 A circumambient ether, agitated by their vibrations. 1855M. Arnold Mycerinus 53 The Circumambient gloom.
c. fig.
1830I. Taylor Logic in Theol. (1859) 104 The circumambient scorn of his fellows. 1866G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxi. (1878) 237 The opening of..intellectual windows towards the circumambient truth.
2. absol. or as n.
1682Norris Hierocles 124 In an Orb the Centre is one way the beginning, and another way the end of the Circumambient. 1849Miss Mulock Ogilvies xxvi. The whole circumambient seemed to have grown suddenly yellow. |