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Circumgyratory
- - Moving in a circle; turning round.
Circumlocution
- noun - a style that involves indirect ways of expressing things
- an indirect way of expressing something
Circumlocutory
- adjective - roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic)
Circummeridian
- - About, or near, the meridian.
Circumnavigate
- verb - travel around, either by plane or ship; "We compassed the earth"
Circumnutation
- - The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.
Circumposition
- - The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
Circumrotation
- - The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round.
Circumrotatory
- - turning, rolling, or whirling round.