circumcursation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin circumcursare, circumcursatum (“to run round about”).
Noun edit
circumcursation (plural circumcursations)
- (obsolete) The act of running about.
- (obsolete) rambling language
- a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Pope's Supremacy”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:
- He allegeth the forementioned address of Felicissimus and Fortunatus to Pope Cornelius; the which was but a factious circumcursation of desperate wretches
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “circumcursation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)