[f. as prec. + -ENCY.] The quality of being circumjacent; concr. (in pl.) circumjacent parts, environs.

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1748.  Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. iv. 16. All the mongrel cure of the circumjacencies.

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1839.  De Quincey, Recoll. Lakes, Wks. (1858), II. v. 252. The mouth, and the whole circumjacencies of the mouth, composed the strongest feature in Wordsworth’s face.

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