Obs. [L. circumquāque on every side, all round.] A circumlocution, ‘circumbendibus.’
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., xxxviii. 50. What (quoth the flie) meaneth this circumquaquie? Ibid. (1562), Prov. & Epigr. (1867), 69. Ye set circumquaques to make me beleue … that the moone is made of a greene Cheese.
1591. Harington, Orl. Fur., XLIII. cxiii. With divers circumquaques and deuises He seeketh of the nurse to finde the trace.
