[n. of action f. L. circumrotāre to turn round as a wheel.]
1. Turning round as a wheel; revolution on an axis, rotation; a complete rotation (e.g., of a planet).
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Circumrotation, the going about of a wheel.
1665–6. Phil. Trans., I. 172. Supposing the whole circumrotation is made in 9 hours 56 minutes.
1732. Pope, Lett., 13 Sept. He made his head giddy with various circumrotations.
1782. W. Heberden, Comm., lxxxiii. (1806), 409. A … circumrotation of the face, sometimes to the right, sometimes to the left.
† 2. A round or tour in travelling. Obs.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), IV. 291. In the circumrotation we took, while in the coach.
† 3. A changing about in rotation. Obs.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, XII. xx. (1620), 438. Porphyry the Platonist refused his masters opinion in this circumrotation of soules.
1767. A. Campbell, Lexiph. (1774), 45. He has had successive circumrotations through the characters of Squire, Critic, Gamester, and Foxhunter.
