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circumforaneous

adjective as in surrounding

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In the first Place I must observe, that there is a Set of merry Drolls, whom the common People of all Countries admire, and seem to love so well, that they could eat them, according to the old Proverb: I mean those circumforaneous Wits whom every Nation calls by the Name of that Dish of Meat which it loves best.

Adj. turning &c. v.; circuitous; circumforaneous†, circumfluent†.

Adj. traveling &c. v.; ambulatory, itinerant, peripatetic, roving, rambling, gadding, discursive, vagrant, migratory, monadic; circumforanean†, circumforaneous†; noctivagrant†, mundivagrant; locomotive. wayfaring, wayworn; travel-stained.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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