单词 | circuition |
释义 | circuitionn. archaic. 1. A going round or about; making of a circuit; compassing, encircling, visitation in circuit. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in circle umganga1300 umganginga1340 circlingc1440 compassing1530 circuition1533 circulation1535 round1539 circumgyration1606 rounding1612 circuling1647 circuiting1659 circumagitation1660 circuity1770 ringing1868 milling1874 circumfluence1881 ring-a-ring1922 mill1961 society > travel > [noun] > travelling about > touring > for survey or inspection perambulation?a1500 circuition1533 perlustration1640 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) 216 The circuicioun and charge [L. circuitio ac cura] that wes wont to be gevin to the edilis, war gevin to small pepill. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1338 The circuitions, conversions and changes which appeare in the heaven. 1622 R. Preston Godly Mans Inquisit. ii. 47 Leaue..perambulations and circuitions to Sathan, that infernall Peripatetike. 1684 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 14 681 The space of a Lunar circuition of the earth. 1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 48 Sacred circuition of the sun. 2. figurative. Circuitous mode of speech, circumlocution, ‘maze of argument’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > periphrasis or circumlocution circumlocution?1518 ambage1532 periphrasis1533 circuition1542 circuit1552 notation1555 compassing1580 periphrase1589 ambush1601 encompassment1604 circumambulation1606 circling1623 perambulationa1652 roundaboutness1810 roundaboutation1812 ambagiosity1819 circumambulating1837 peripherization1926 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 130 With a Cynical circuicion or goyng about the bushe. 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 168 Answers..without any Circuition or æquivocation at all. 1846 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. in Wks. I. 68/2 Adds clause to clause..with all the circuition..of an indenture. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1533 |
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