circumvolution

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Its motion is one of rapid circumvolution, rather than of straightforward impulse by rapid and direct effort; it extends its orbit by small continual and hasty movements, but it does not suddenly alter its position.

From Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Reeves, Henry

Such words as "calefaction," "exility," "self-reduplication," "tricentreity," "individuation," "circumvolution," "presentifick circularity," struggle and sprawl within the narrow room of the Spenserian stanza.

From Milton by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

All the more insane were the circumvolution of that fictitious Primum Mobile, which is higher, deeper, and still more immeasurable.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William

Tell me, then, for you can, in what periphrasis of language, in what circumvolution of phrase, I shall envelope, yet not conceal, the plain story.

From The Letters of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert