Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Adjacent to and lying round about: as, circumadjacent land.
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- adjective Lying
immediately around
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Examples
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Council House and along the shattered cliff of its circumadjacent buildings, were innumerable people, and their voices even when they were not cheering, were as the soughing of the sea upon a pebble beach.
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Guards in black lined the way that the Council would come, and as far as the eye could reach into the hazy blue twilight of the ruins, and swarming now at every possible point in the captured Council House and along the shattered cliff of its circumadjacent buildings, were innumerable people, and their voices even when they were not cheering, were as the soughing of the sea upon a pebble beach.
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The new house and its circumadjacent real estate belong not to me, but to Alice and to her heirs and assigns forever.
The House An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer, and of His Wife, Alice Eugene Field 1872
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