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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Going about, as from market-place to market-place; walking or wandering from house to house; vagrant; vagabond.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Wandering from place to place or market to market.
  2. adj. by extension Indirect, roundabout, or unnecessarily complex.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin circum ("round about") (compare English circum-) with -foraneous, from forum ("market place"). (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “Proverb: I mean those circumforaneous Wits whom every Nation calls by the Name of that Dish of Meat which it loves best.”

    Spectator, April 24, 1711

  • “In the first Place I must observe, that there is a Set of merry Drolls, whom the common People of all Countries admire, and seem to love so well, _that they could eat them_, according to the old Proverb: I mean those circumforaneous Wits whom every Nation calls by the Name of that”

    The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays

  • “Let the megalophonous grasshopper sound a blast and summon hither the perfunctory and circumforaneous Tumble-Bug, to the end that excavations may be made and learning gather new treasures. ”

    Sketches New and Old

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  • pavonine Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to
    house. Nov 25, 2007

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