单词 | circumforaneous |
释义 | circumforaneousadj. Now rare or Obsolete. a. Strolling from market to market; wandering, vagrant, vagabond; quack. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > in connection with employment > travelling from market to market circumforanean1603 circumforaneal1613 circumforaneous1650 1650 J. Brinsley Antidote 29. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 235 (heading) Corrective for a Circumforaneous Antidote. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. viii. 219 The circumforaneous Emperick. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity xvi A kind of circumforaneous Masking or Mumming. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 47. ¶6 I mean those circumforaneous Wits, whom every Nation calls by the Name of that Dish of Meat which it loves best..in Italy, Maccaronies; and in Great Britain, Jack Puddings. a1790 W. Cullen Lect. Hist. Med. in Wks. (1827) I. 373 At first they practised in a circumforaneous manner. b. Translating Latin circumforāneus in senses (a) carried about for expiation; (b) movable. ΚΠ 1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis iii. 47 Those who, with lustral sacrifices, expiate, by circumforaneous victims, the anger of the Gods. 1822 T. Taylor tr. Apuleius Metamorphosis iv. 77 Towers formed from the junction of planks, after the manner of a circumforaneous house. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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