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circumvolve, v. Now rare.|sɜːkəmˈvɒlv|
[ad. L. circumvolvĕre to roll round (trans.).]
1. trans.
a. To turn, roll, or whirl (a thing) round on its axis or centre.
1647Herrick Upon Mr. Fletcher's Plays, Whene'ere we circumvolve our eyes. 1677R. Cary Chronol. i. i. § i. ii. 6 The whole Sphere being circumvolved once every day. 1822T. Taylor Apuleius 199, I had frequently seen machines similarly circumvolved.
b. To turn or move (a thing) round in a circular path. rare.
1610Histriom. i. 230 The flye..Shall sundry times be circumvolv'd about. 1839–54Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 173 Planets, and moons..circumvolved Each round the other.
2. intr.
a. To turn round or revolve on an axis or centre; to rotate; also fig. of time, etc.
1626T. H[awkins] Caussin's Holy Crt. 202 To make dayes, and tymes, still to circumvolue. 1713Derham Phys. Theol. i. v. 33 The Terraqueous Globe..which circumvolves at the rate of above 1000 Miles an Hour. 1791E. Darwin Loves of Plants ii. 104 And slowly circumvolves the labouring wheel below.
b. To revolve in a circular path or orbit. rare.
1841Borrow Zincali (1843) I. ii. 65 [Sparks] expire gracefully circumvolving. 1858Chamb. Jrnl. X. 194 Round whom everybody else is perpetually circumvolving.
†3. To wind, fold, wrap, or twist round:
†a. a string, a cloth, etc., round something.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 7/1 Madefy certayn cloutes..and circumvolve the same rounde aboute his heade. 1729G. Shelvocke Artillery v. 333 Circumvolving or wrapping the Base of it..round the..Cylinder.
†b. something (e.g. the body) with a string, a cloth, or the like: to enwrap, envelop, involve, encompass. Also fig.
1607Dekker Wh. Babylon Wks. 1873 II. 254 Doe seruile clowdes, Our glorious body circumvolue? 1611Tourneur Ath. Trag. iv. iii, O were my body circumuolu'd Within that cloud. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 61 Abundance of..Cypresse-trees, circumvolving the Towne.
absol.1648Herrick Hesper., On Black Twist, Of blackest silk a curious twist Which circumvolving gently there Enthrall'd her arme. 1704A. van Leeuwenhoek in Phil. Trans. XXV. 1727 The Fibrous Substance which here does first circumvolve from the Middle Point.
fig.1611Heywood Golden Age iii. i. Wks. 1874 III. 38 Circumuolu'd With multiplicity of distempratures. ― Fortune by Land & S. iii. i. Ibid. VI. 401 With..heart circumvolved in woe. 1649G. Daniel Trinarch. Rich. II, cclxxv, An abhorr'd Stupor doth Circumvolue vs. 1824H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary Q. Scots 61 When dangers circumvolved my Bothwell round.
Hence circumvolved, circumvolving ppl. adjs.
1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xix. 51 Between the proper Membrane of the Bladder, and its circumvolved Muscle. 1677Sir T. Herbert Trav. 169 (T.) A circumvolving wilderness. |