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circumnavigatory

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  • adjective pertaining to circumnavigation

Etymologies

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circumnavigate +‎ -ory

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Examples

  • Lind was particularly influenced by reports of Admiral Lord Anson's circumnavigatory expedition of

    The Ethics of Clinical Research Wendler, David 2009

  • After a circumnavigatory voyage, undertaken solely for the love of his science, Mr. Darwin published a series of researches which at once arrested the attention of naturalists and geologists; his generalizations have since received ample confirmation, and now command universal assent, nor is it questionable that they have had the most important influence on the progress of science.

    Essays 2007

  • At this point in the circumnavigatory voyage of the

    Robur the Conqueror 2003

  • The editor and I having passed the better part of an hour going over this matter, substantial arguments were finally advanced by him which persuaded me to make the experiment of lowering the circumnavigatory record.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • At this point in the circumnavigatory voyage of the "Albatross" it is only natural that some such questions as the following should be asked.

    Robur the Conqueror Jules Verne 1866

  • After a circumnavigatory voyage, undertaken solely for the love of his science, Mr. Darwin published a series of researches which at once arrested the attention of naturalists and geologists; his generalisations have since received ample confirmation and now command universal assent, nor is it questionable that they have had the most important influence on the progress of science.

    Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • After a circumnavigatory voyage, undertaken solely for the love of his science, Mr. Darwin published a series of researches which at once arrested the attention of naturalists and geologists; his generalizations have since received ample confirmation, and now command universal assent, nor is it questionable that they have had the most important influence on the progress of science.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • This vessel, though a French merchantman, was freighted with a cargo of Swiss manufactured goods, suited to any commercial transactions which might be entered into in the course of a circumnavigatory voyage.

    Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

  • Magellan, of the famous circumnavigatory voyage performed by the

    The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

  • Following up their circumnavigatory trip in Long Way Round,

    Quick Stop Entertainment 2008

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