Part 1934

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.</def>

<blockquote>The golden <b>circuit</b> on my head. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.</def>

<blockquote>A <b>circuit</b> wide inclosed with goodliest trees. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <sd>(a)</sd> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice. <i>Bouvier</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Methodist Church)</fld> A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Circumlocution.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Thou hast used no <i>circuit</i> of words."

<i>Huloet.</i>

<cs><col>Circuit court</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a court which sits successively in different places in its circuit (see <er>Circuit</er>, 6). In the United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also have circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction of the same class, in matters of State cognizance.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Circuit</col> <it>or</it> <col>Circuity of action</col></mcol> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to attain the object in view.</cd> -- <col>To make a circuit</col>, <cd>to go around; to go a roundabout way.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Voltaic</col> <it>or</it> <col>Galvanic circuit</col> <it>or</it> <col>circle</col></mcol>, <cd>a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established.</cd></cs>

<h1>Circuit</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir"cuit</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>J. Philips.</i>

<h1>Circuit</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir"cuit</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To travel around.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Having <i>circuited</i> the air."

<i>T. Warton.</i>

<h1>Circuiteer</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir`cuit*eer"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A circuiter.</def>

<i>Pope.</i>

<h1>Circuiter</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir"cuit*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who travels a circuit, as a circuit judge.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>R. Whitlock.</i>

<h1>Circuition</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir`cu*i"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circuitio</ets>. See <er>Circuit</er>.]</ety> <def>The act of going round; circumlocution.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Circuitous</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir*cu"i*tous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>circuitosus</ets>.]</ety> <def>Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; <as>as, a <ex>circuitous</ex> road; a <ex>circuitous</ex> manner of accompalishing an end.</as></def> -- <wordforms><wf>Cir*cu"i*tous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Cir*cu"i*tous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<syn>Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine.</syn>

<h1>Circuity</h1> <Xpage=257>

<hw>Cir*cu"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.</def>