a. [ad. L. circumjacēnt-em, pres. pple. of circumjacēre to lie around, border upon.] Lying or situated around, adjacent on all sides, surrounding.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, vii. 32. Hir good fame … florysshyng … in the countreys circumiacent.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, IV. 45. By the bindyng together of all the partes circumiacent.
1652. Howell, Massaniello, II. 137. In many places of the Country circumjacent to Naples.
1847. Grote, Greece (1862), III. xxxvi. 267. The city with its circumjacent plain.
