Meanings
adjectivecircumforanean (comparative more circumforanean, superlative most circumforanean)
comparative more circumforanean · superlative most circumforanean
- obsoleteWandering from market to market; vagabond, itinerant.
[…] I am the bolder to insert, as not borrowed from circumforanean rogues and gypsies, but out of the writings of worthy philosophers and physicians […]
1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York: New York Review Books, published 2001, →ISBN, page 209
Origin
- Latincircumforaneus
- Englishcircumforanean
From Latin circumforaneus + -an.
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