Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of going round.
- n. Circumlocution.
- n. A name proposed by C. S. Peirce for so much of any self-returning change as brings about the original state of those characters which are not altered by the reversal of a difference, while it does not bring about the return of such characters as are so altered. A half-revolution is a geometrical circuition. See bicircuition.
Wiktionary
- n. archaic The act of going round; a circuit, an encircling.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare The act of going round; circumlocution.
Etymologies
- From Latin circuitiōnem, from circuīre. Compare circuit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“a piece of circuition needed for variety of development, and, of necessity, to eventuate in forms fresher, more”
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
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