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Circumposition
() The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
Circumrotary
() Alt. of Circumrotatory
Circumrotatory
() turning, rolling, or whirling round.
Circumrotate
() To rotate about.
Circumrotation
() The act of rolling or revolving round, as a wheel; circumvolution; the state of being whirled round.
Circumscissile
() Dehiscing or opening by a transverse fissure extending around (a capsule or pod). See Illust. of Pyxidium.
Circumscribable
() Capable of being circumscribed.
Circumscribed
() of Circumscribe
Circumscribing
() of Circumscribe
Circumscribe
() to write or engrave around.
Circumscribe
() To inclose within a certain limit; to hem in; to surround; to bound; to confine; to restrain.
Circumscribe
() To draw a line around so as to touch at certain points without cutting. See Inscribe, 5.
Circumscriber
() One who, or that which, circumscribes.
Circumscriptible
() Capable of being circumscribed or limited by bounds.
Circumscription
() An inscription written around anything.
Circumscription
() The exterior line which determines the form or magnitude of a body; outline; periphery.
Circumscription
() The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit.
Circumscriptive
() Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limits or form of.
Circumscriptively
() In a limited manner.
Circumscriptly
() In a literal, limited, or narrow manner.
Circumspect
() Attentive to all the circumstances of a case or the probable consequences of an action; cautious; prudent; wary.
Circumspection
() Attention to all the facts and circumstances of a case; caution; watchfulness.
Circumspective
() Looking around every way; cautious; careful of consequences; watchful of danger.
Circumspectively
() Circumspectly.
Circumspectly
() In a circumspect manner; cautiously; warily.
Circumspectness
() Vigilance in guarding against evil from every quarter; caution.
Circumstance
() That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
Circumstance
() An event; a fact; a particular incident.
Circumstance
() Circumlocution; detail.
Circumstance
() Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.
Circumstance
() To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
Circumstanced
() Placed in a particular position or condition; situated.
Circumstanced
() Governed by events or circumstances.
Circumstant
() Standing or placed around; surrounding.
Circumstantiable
() Capable of being circumstantiated.
Circumstantial
() Consisting in, or pertaining to, circumstances or particular incidents.
Circumstantial
() Incidental; relating to, but not essential.
Circumstantial
() Abounding with circumstances; detailing or exhibiting all the circumstances; minute; particular.
Circumstantial
() Something incidental to the main subject, but of less importance; opposed to an essential; -- generally in the plural; as, the circumstantials of religion.
Circumstantiality
() The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial; particularity or minuteness of detail.
Circumstantially
() In respect to circumstances; not essentially; accidentally.
Circumstantially
() In every circumstance or particular; minutely.
Circumstantiated
() of Circumstantiate
Circumstantiating
() of Circumstantiate
Circumstantiate
() To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.
Circumstantiate
() To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning.
Circumterraneous
() Being or dwelling around the earth.
Circumundulate
() To flow round, as waves.
Circumvallate
() To surround with a rampart or wall.
Circumvallate
() Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.
