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circumforaneous

adjective as in surrounding

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Another former finalist, Syamantak Parma of Friendswood, Texas, misspelled "circumforaneous," which means "wandering from place to place," and saw his final appearance in the bee end with the dreaded ringing of a bell.

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Another former finalist, Syamantak Parma of Friendswood, Texas, misspelled "circumforaneous," which means "wandering from place to place," and saw his final appearance in the bee end with the dreaded ringing of a bell.

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

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

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

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