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Circumjacent

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Lying or located in the area arround something. archaic, literary, not-comparable

    "[S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it."

Etymology

From Latin circa (“around”) + jacēre (“to lie down”).

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