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Circuition
- - The act of going round; circumlocution.
Circuitous
- adjective - deviating from a straight course; "a scenic but devious route"; "a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"; "a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"
- marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct; "the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"; "a roundabout paragraph"; "hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"
Cirrostomi
- - The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.
Cisleithan
- - On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.
Cismontane
- adjective - on this (the speaker's) side of the mountains; "a contest in Virginia between a cismontane and a tramontane people"
City State
- noun - a state consisting of a sovereign city
City-State
- noun - a state consisting of a sovereign city
Civil Time
- noun - the official time in a local region (adjusted for location around the Earth); established by law or custom
Civilities
- noun - formal or perfunctory politeness
- the act of showing regard for others
Cladistics
- noun - a system of biological taxonomy based on the quantitative analysis of comparative data and used to reconstruct cladograms summarizing the (assumed) phylogenetic relations and evolutionary history of groups of organisms