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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.
Circumscissile
- - Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
Circumscribing
- verb - draw a line around; "He drew a circle around the points"
- restrict or confine, "I limit you to two visits to the pub a day"
- to draw a geometric figure around another figure so that the two are in contact but do not intersect
Circumscriptly
- - In a literal, limited, or narrow manner.