Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A carrying about.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.

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  • noun archaic The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.

Etymologies

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Latin circumvectio; circum + vehere to carry.

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