Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Surrounding.
- noun A bystander; a spectator.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Standing or placed around; surrounding.
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- adjective Standing or placed around; surrounding.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Quamdiu autem tales loquuntur sibi, aut literas ostendunt, circumstant Apparitores extensis brachijs leuatos tenentes mucrones, gladios, gezas, et mackas ad feriendum, et occidendum, si quid dictum vel nunciatum fuerit, quod Imperatori displiceat, quam citò ille signauerit trucidari.
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Exeunt amici paterque, et juvenem sub dio sedentem circumstant.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Quamdiu autem tales loquuntur sibi, aut literas ostendunt, circumstant Apparitores extensis brachijs leuatos tenentes mucrones, gladios, gezas, et mackas ad feriendum, et occidendum, si quid dictum vel nunciatum fuerit, quod Imperatori displiceat, quam cit� ille signauerit trucidari.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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VNDE haec, unde haec flamma exoritur? incede, adsunt, me expetit agmen. fer mi auxilium, pestem abige a me, flammiferam hanc uim quae me excruciat. caerulea incinctae angui incedunt, 5 circumstant cum ardentibus taedis.
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Quamdiu autem tales loquuntur sibi, aut literas ostendunt, circumstant Apparitores extensis brachijs leuatos tenentes mucrones, gladios, gezas, et mackas ad feriendum, et occidendum, si quid dictum vel nunciatum fuerit, quod Imperatori displiceat, quam citò ille signauerit trucidari.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I Richard Hakluyt 1584
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