circumduce

English

Etymology

See circumduct.

Verb

circumduce (third-person singular simple present circumduces, present participle circumducing, simple past and past participle circumduced)

1. (archaic, law, Scotland, transitive) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
   • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:

     But come, Dominie, I have allowed you a competent space to express your feelings. I must circumduce the term; you must let me proceed in my examination.

Derived terms

• circumduction

 

References

“circumduce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Verb

circumdūce

1. second-person singular present active imperative of circumdūcō