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circumgyrate, v.|sɜːkəmˈdʒaɪreɪt|
Also -girate.
[f. circum- + L. gȳrāt- ppl. stem of gȳrāre to turn or wheel round: see -ate.]
1. trans. To cause to turn or wheel round; to twist or twine. ? Obs.
1647H. More Song of Soul ii. i. ii. xliii, The soul about it self circumgyrates Her various forms. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1704) 334 Various sorts of Vessels, curl'd, circumgyrated, and complicated together.
2. intr. To turn or wheel about, to roll round; to travel round, make circuits.
1683E. Hooker Pref. Pordage's Mystic Div. 24 The whol frame of the World seemeth to me..to circumgyrate, to wheel, whirl, and turn round about in a Topsi-Turvi. 1830–2Bentham Justice & Codific. Petit. Wks. 1843 V. 479 Circumgirating, as if by steam, on a wheel without a drag.
3. trans. To go round, travel round. rare.
1868E. Edwards Raleigh I. xxiv. 564 It took an active man..ten hours to circumgirate the town. |