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circumagitate

circumagitate verb: to agitate on all sides.

Verb

circumagitate (third-person singular simple present circumagitates, present participle circumagitating, simple past and past participle circumagitated)

  1. (transitive) To agitate on all sides.
    • God […]hath placed his angels in their houses of light , and given to every one of his appointed officers a portion of the fiery matter to circumagitate and roll1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC

Forms of circumagitate

third-person singular presentcircumagitates
present participlecircumagitating
past participlecircumagitated
pastcircumagitated

Origin of circumagitate

From circum- + agitate.

Questions about circumagitate

What does circumagitate mean?
Circumagitate means to agitate on all sides.
What part of speech is circumagitate?
Circumagitate is a verb.
What is the past tense of circumagitate?
The past tense of circumagitate is circumagitated.

Words near circumagitate in the dictionary

  1. circum-Jovian
  2. circum-Martian
  3. circumabdominal
  4. circumacetabular
  5. circumadjacent
  6. circumagitate
  7. circumagitated
  8. circumagitates
  9. circumagitating
  10. circumambages
  11. circumambagious

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