Circumjacent
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 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."
Example
More examples"[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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