circumpass
English
Etymology
From circum- + pass.
Verb
circumpass (third-person singular simple present circumpasses, present participle circumpassing, simple past and past participle circumpassed)
- To go around; to span.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.12:
- Pythagoras hath made God, a spirit dispersed through the Nature of all things, whence our soules are derived. Parmenides, a Circle circumpassing [transl. entournant] the heavens, and by the heat of light maintaining the world.
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