Part 1948

<h1>Circumundulate</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*un"du*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>circum-</ets> + <ets>undulate</ets>.]</ety> <def>To flow round, as waves.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Circumvallate</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*val"late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circumvallatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>circumvallare</ets> to surround with a wall; <ets>circum</ets> + <ets>vallare</ets> to wall, fr. <ets>vallum</ets> rampart.]</ety> <def>To surround with a rampart or wall.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<h1>Circumvallate</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*val"late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Surrounded by a ridle or elevation; <as>as, the <ex>circumvallate</ex> papill\'91, near the base of the tongue</as>.</def>

<h1>Circumvallation</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*val*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.</def>

<h1>Circumvection</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*vec"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circumvectio</ets>; <ets>circum</ets> + <ets>vehere</ets> to carry.]</ety> <def>The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.</def>

<h1>Circumvent</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*vent"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Circumvented</er>; <tt>p. pr. vb. n.</tt> <er>Circumventing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>circumventis</ets>, p. p. of <ets>circumvenire</ets>, to come around, encompass, decieve; <ets>circum</ets> + <ets>venire</ets> to come, akin to E. <ets>come.</ets>]</ety> <def>To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.</def>

<blockquote>I <b>circumvented</b> whom I could not gain. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Circumvention</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*ven"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circumventio</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.</def>

<blockquote>A school in which he learns sly <b>circumvention</b>. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Circumventive</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*vent"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.</def>

<h1>Circumventor</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*vent"or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <def>One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.</def>

<h1>Circumvest</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir`cum*vest"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circumvestire</ets>; <ets>circum + vestire</ets> to clothe.]</ety> <def>To cover round, as woth a garment; to invest.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote><b>Circumvested</b> with much prejudice. <i>Sir H. Wotton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Circumvolant</h1> <Xpage=259>

<hw>Cir*cum"vo*lant</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circumvolans</ets>, p. pr. See <er>Circumvolation</er>.]</ety> <def>Flying around.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>circumvolant</b> troubles of humanity. <i>G. Macdonald.</i></blockquote>