v. [f. L. circumambulāre (f. circum around + ambulāre to walk): See -ATE3.]

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  1.  trans. To walk round about.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Circumambulate, to walk round about.

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1846.  Q. Rev., XV. 326. Having seven times circumambulated the Kaaba.

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1847.  De Quincey, Secret Societies, Wks. (1863), VI. 270. Round and round the furious Jews must have circumambulated the Christian camp.

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  2.  intr. To walk about, go about; fig. to beat about the bush.

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1692.  Wood, Ath. Oxon., II. 610 (R.). Ordinary persons, that circumambulated with their box and needle.

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1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. IV. i. What dubitating, what circumambulating!

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  Hence Circumambulating vbl. sb. and ppl. a. (See above.)

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