v. [f. L. circumnāvig-āre to sail round: see -ATE3.] trans. To sail round.

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1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 392 (T.). In his circum-navigating the Globe.

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1772–84.  Cook, Voy. (1790), I. 79. With a design of circum-navigating the island.

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1846.  Grote, Greece (1862), II. xviii. 460. Somewhere about 600 B.C. … [The Phoenicians] circumnavigated Africa.

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1876.  Green, Short Hist., vii. § 7 (1882), 413. Drake circumnavigated the globe.

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  fig.  1827.  Hare, Guesses, Ser. II. (1873), 447. The business of Philosophy is to circumnavigate human nature.

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