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circumjacent

circumjacent adjective: lying or located in the area around something.

Adjective

circumjacent (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, literary) Lying or located in the area around something.
    • [S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.1642, James Howell, “Section III”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC, page 32
    • [H]e had establiſhed his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes.1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 289

Synonyms of circumjacent

Origin of circumjacent

From Latin circa (“around”) + jacēre (“to lie down”).

Words formed from circumjacent

Questions about circumjacent

What does circumjacent mean?
Circumjacent means lying or located in the area around something.
What part of speech is circumjacent?
Circumjacent is an adjective.

Words near circumjacent in the dictionary

  1. circuminsular
  2. circumintestinal
  3. circumjacence
  4. circumjacencies
  5. circumjacency
  6. circumjacent
  7. circumjacently
  8. circumjovial
  9. circumjovials
  10. circumjovian
  11. circumlaryngeal

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