circumforanean

English

Etymology

From Latin circumforaneus +‎ -an.

Adjective

circumforanean (comparative more circumforanean, superlative most circumforanean)

1. (obsolete) Wandering from market to market; vagabond, itinerant.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , New York, 2001, p.209:

     […] I am the bolder to insert, as not borrowed from circumforanean rogues and gypsies, but out of the writings of worthy philosophers and physicians […]