v. [ad. L. circumplect-ĕre to clasp around.] To embrace, clasp tightly.

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  Also † Circumplex v., [f. ppl. stem] in same sense; † Circumplexion, winding about, encompassing; also encompassment, cincture, girdle.

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1578.  Banister, Hist. Man, V. 67. That which … circumplecteth all the subiect vessels and bowels.

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1632.  Quarles, Div. Fancies, I. xl. 20.

        My glorifi’d, my metamorphiz’d Skin
Shall circumplexe and terminate that fresh
And new refined substance of this flesh!

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1628.  Feltham, Resolves, II. lii. (1661), 289 (R.). It was after his fall, but before he was turn’d out of Paradice, that he made himself his Fig-leaf-Circumplexion.

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1655–60.  Stanley, Hist. Philos. (1701), 573/2. Those Circumplexions of Atoms, involving themselves about one another.

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