Etymology: < Latin circumspicĕre to look all round, survey, apparently after suspicious.
Obsolete. rare.
? Looking all round, all-seeing.
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1628 O. FellthamResolves: 2nd Cent. xcviii. sig. Bb8v How can man thinke to act his ill vnseene, when God shall, like the Ayre, be circumspicious round about him? [So edd. 1631, 1635, 1647, 1661, 1840; ed. 1677 has circumspicuous.]
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