[f. CIRCUMNAVIGATE, on L. analogies: see -OR.] One who circumnavigates; spec. one who circumnavigates the earth.

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1770.  Guthrie, Geog. (1792), I. 997 (T.). [Magellan’s] honour of being the first circumnavigator has been disputed in favour of the brave sir Francis Drake.

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1789.  Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, I. 274. Our circumnavigator Captain Cook.

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1818.  Monthly Rev., LXXXV. 487. The first circumnavigators of Africa.

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1845.  De Quincey, Coleridge & Opium-eating, Wks. 1862, XI. 75. A circumnavigator on the most pathless waters of … metaphysics.

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