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† circumˈplect, v.
[ad. L. circumplect-ĕre to clasp around.]
To embrace, clasp tightly.
Also † circumˈplex v., [f. ppl. stem] in same sense; † circumˈplexion, winding about, encompassing; also encompassment, cincture, girdle.
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 67 That which..circumplecteth all the subiect vessels and bowels. 1632Quarles Div. Fancies i. xl. (1660) 17 My metamorphoz'd Skin Shall circumplex..that fresh And new refined substance of this flesh! 1628Feltham Resolves ii. liii (R.) It was after his fall..that he made himself his fig-leaf circumplexion. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 573/2 Those Circumplexions of Atoms, involving themselves about one another. |