circumpass

English

Etymology

From circum- +‎ pass.

Verb

circumpass (third-person singular simple present circumpasses, present participle circumpassing, simple past and past participle circumpassed)

1. To go around; to span.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , II.12:

     Pythagoras hath made God, a spirit dispersed through the Nature of all things, whence our soules are derived. Parmenides, a Circle circumpassing [translating entournant] the heavens, and by the heat of light maintaining the world.