a. Now rare or Obs. [f. L. circumforāne-us (f. circum + forum market) + -OUS.] Strolling from market to market; wandering, vagrant, vagabond; quack.

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1650.  Brinsley, Antidote, 29. [They] went about from place to place (as some and too many circumforaneous teachers … do in all places at this day).

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1651.  Baxter, Inf. Baptism, IV. 235. A Circumforaneous Antidote.

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1654.  Gayton, Pleas. Notes, IV. viii. 219. The circumforaneous Emperick rais’d his Fame.

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1664.  H. More, Myst. Iniq., xvi. 62. A kind of circumforaneous Masking or Mumming.

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1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 47, ¶ 6. I mean those circumforaneous Wits, whom every Nation calls by the Name of that Dish of Meat which it likes best … in Italy, Maccaronies; and in Great Britain, Jack Puddings.

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1827.  Cullen, Lect. Hist. Medicine, Wks. 1827, I. 373. At first they practised in a circumforaneous manner.

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  ¶ Translating L. circumforāneus in senses (a.) carried about for expiation, (b.) movable.

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1822.  T. Taylor, Apuleius, III. 47. Those who, with lustral sacrifices, expiate, by circumforaneous victims, the anger of the Gods. Ibid., IV. 76–7. Towers formed from the junction of planks, after the manner of a circumforaneous house.

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