? Obs. [f. L. circumgestāre to carry round: see -ATION.] A carrying about (ceremonially or in procession).
a. 1564. Becon, Compar. betw. Lord’s Sup. & Pope’s Mass (1844), 394. That popish mass … with her feigned propitiatory sacrifice, with her transubstantiation, circumgestation.
1647. Jer. Taylor, Dissuas. Popery, i. (1686), 96. Circumgestation of the Eucharist to be adored.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., I. iv. § 5. Adoration and Circumgestation of Reliques.
