adjective. Encompassing on all sides; surrounding.

Surrounding; encompassing; inclosing or being on all sides: specifically applied, in entomology, to the pronotum when the anterior angles are elongated in curved processes which form a circle above the head, overlapping in front.

adjective. Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing.

adjective. Ascribing to all aspects of; encompassing.

adjective. Surrounding.

adverb. in a circumambient manner

"The point to this dissertation -- if point be allowed by courtesy -- is directed, in a measure, at a clergyman in this city, who told gleefully of the break of a church officer in a prayer meeting, and yet the same preacher on the following Sunday night, used, in a brief petition, the words "circumambient," "iridescent" and "corollary.""

circumambience  circumambiency  circumambulate  

14-17  adiacent  austral  callest  costimulatory  

encompassing  surrounding