Circumambient

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Encompassing on all sides; surrounding.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Ascribing to all aspects of; encompassing.
  • adj. Surrounding.
  • ad. in a circumambient manner
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Surrounding; encompassing; inclosing or being on all sides: specifically applied, in entomology, to the pronotum when the anterior angles are elongated in curved processes which form a circle above the head, overlapping in front.
    • Word Usage
    "The point to this dissertation -- if point be allowed by courtesy -- is directed, in a measure, at a clergyman in this city, who told gleefully of the break of a church officer in a prayer meeting, and yet the same preacher on the following Sunday night, used, in a brief petition, the words "circumambient," "iridescent" and "corollary.""
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    surrounding    encompassing   
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