circumambiency

English

Noun

circumambiency (countable and uncountable, plural circumambiencies)

  1. The condition of being circumambient
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
      ice receiveth its figure according unto the surface wherein it concreteth, or the circumambiency which conformeth it
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