circumadjacentadj.
Lying immediately around.
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circumjacent1490
circumstant1545
circumvoisin1548
environing?a1560
encompassing1571
ambient1572
succingent1578
embracing1590
circling1594
girdling1598
circumdant1600
rounding1600
all round?1611
circumferent1620
circumsistent1625
circuiting1632
circulating1632
encircling1632
surrounding1637
begirting1645
circumambient1648
circumstantial1650
girding1658
skirtingc1735
entwining1737
circumadjacent1780
belting1808
engirdling1843
encyclic1850
engirding1852
zoning1853
roundaboutc1860
begirding1877
wraparound1957
1780 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 2) IV. vii. 123 After the circumadjacent country had been shut out.
1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) iii. 102 All the circumadjacent lands and islands.
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