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circumˈspectious, a.
[f. prec.: see -tious.]
Marked by circumspection, circumspect.
1649Arnway Tablet (ed. 2) 67 Which circumspectious Nature..oft leaves unpolished. 1656Earl of Monmouth Adv. fr. Parnass. 42 Punishments..rather mild and circumspectious, then precipitate and cruel. 1918E. Pound Pavannes & Div. 37 Yet Radway went. A circumspectious prig! 1920Cornhill Mag. Sept. 352 ‘He was a circumspectious man, yon Grant,’ said Ewing. 1923W. de la Mare Riddle 95 A kind of unseen circumspectious spirit. |