Gyrovagues: Monks who were accustomed to wander from place to place. In modern times, perhaps, any of the various circumforaneous proselytizers who go from door to door—Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, et al.
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Circumforaneous
//sɜːkəmfəˈɹeɪnɪəs//
Synonyms for "circumforaneous" (24 found)
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Finnish
2 entries- kiertelevä adj (indirect, unnecessarily complex)
- kiertävä adj (wandering from place to place)
Russian
1 entries- шля́ться adj (wandering from place to place)
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It is perfect for a thirteen-year-old child of NoVA when in the throes of another fit of aimlessness and maddening, ravenous boredom in which only the entering of a mall, the circumforaneous wandering amid others of your kind, or the buying of a CD (usually more like the stealing of a CD) can cure the disease.
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The reason that this has not been the subject of extended commentary in science studies was that the path along which thermodynamics wrought its magic was unprecedentedly indirect and circumforaneous:[…]
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