单词 | circumambulator |
释义 | circumambulatorn. One who circumambulates. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [noun] > one going on foot > round or about circumambulator1787 1787 T. Jefferson Corr. (1829) II. 162 He was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth. 1880 A. Forbes in 19th Cent. 7 228 The circumambulator of the Green Park. Derivatives circumambulatory adj. of or marked by circumambulation. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > going on foot > [adjective] > going on foot > round circumambulatory1634 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > periphrastic or circumlocutory ambagious?1532 periphrasticala1638 circumlatory1639 ambagical1652 ambitious1656 circumlocutory1659 roundabout1704 periphrastic1776 ambagitory1814 circumambagious1834 ambaginous1838 circumambulatory1842 circumlocutionary1863 circumlocutional1865 1634 T. Carew Cœlum Britanicum 362 My privileges are an ubiquitary, circumambulatory..immunity over all the privie lodgings. 1842 Fraser's Mag. 26 642 The style..is too diffuse, and, if we may use the word, circumambulatory. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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