a. [f. L. circensis of the circus (ludi circenses, the games in the Circus Maximus at Rome) + -AN.] Of, pertaining to, or celebrated in the Roman Circus (see CIRCUS).
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus’ Ann., XV. xii. (1622), 238. That day that the Circensian plaies were represented.
1770. Langhorne, Plutarch (1879), I. 152/2. He made vows to the gods … to celebrate the great circensian games to their honour.
1825. De Quincey, Cæsars, Wks. X. 100. The whole machinery, form and substance, of the circensian shows.
