Circuition

//səːkjʊˈɪʃ(ə)n// noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of going round; a circuit, an encircling. archaic

    "Democritus would sometimes say, that the images and their circuitions were Gods, and othertimes this Nature, which disperseth these images; and then our knowledge and intelligence."

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"Democritus would sometimes say, that the images and their circuitions were Gods, and othertimes this Nature, which disperseth these images; and then our knowledge and intelligence."

Etymology

From Latin circuitiōnem, from circuīre. Compare circuit.

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