circumvolve

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So that whene'er we circumvolve our eyes,

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  1. intransitive and transitive verb To revolve or cause to revolve.

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  • So that whene'er we circumvolve our eyes, —  The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
  • Upon my soul, I believe there is not a letter in those words round which a world of imagery does not circumvolve; your room, the garden, the cold bath, the moonlight rocks, Barristed, Moore, and simple-looking Frere, and dreams of wonderful things attached to your name -- and Skiddaw, and Glaramara, and Eagle Crag, and you, and —  Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.
 

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  1. Latin circumvolvere : circum-, circum- + volvere, to roll; see wel-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Italian circonvolgere, from Latin circumvolvere, roll around, from circum, around, + volvere, roll: see volution.
 

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