circumvection

English edit

Etymology edit

From Latin circumvectio, from circum + vehere (“to carry”).

Noun edit

circumvection (countable and uncountable, plural circumvections)

(archaic) The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “circumvection”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)