circumjacent

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adjective

Lying or located in the area around something.

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circumambientsurrounding
OriginLatin circa →
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Meanings

adjectivecircumjacent (not comparable)
  1. archaicliterarynot comparableLying or located in the area around something.

    [H]e had establiſhed his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes.

    1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 289
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    [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.

    1642, James Howell, “Section III”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC, page 32

    [W]hile the table was […] the lap of luxury […] the circumjacent region of the sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character: […]

    1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 36

    He had taken no trouble to indicate it to his fellow citizens, purveyors and consumers, in his own and the circumjacent commonwealths, of comic matter in large lettering, diurnally “set up,” printed, published, folded and delivered, at the expense of his presumptuous emulation of the snail.

    1904 November 10, Henry James, chapter VIII, in The Golden Bowl, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, 1st book (The Prince), 2nd part, page 148

    Synonyms: circumambient, surrounding

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveLying or located in the area around something.

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circumambientsurrounding

Origin

  1. Latincirca“around”
  2. Englishcircumjacent

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

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APA

circumjacent. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumjacent

MLA

“circumjacent.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumjacent. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “circumjacent,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/circumjacent.

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