[f. as prec. + -ENCY.] The quality of being circumjacent; concr. (in pl.) circumjacent parts, environs.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. iv. 16. All the mongrel cure of the circumjacencies.
1839. De Quincey, Recoll. Lakes, Wks. (1858), II. v. 252. The mouth, and the whole circumjacencies of the mouth, composed the strongest feature in Wordsworths face.