Circumambient

Quick meaning: Circumambient is an adjective meaning Including all aspects of; encompassing.

Meaning

Including all aspects of; encompassing.

More Meanings

1. Surrounding.
2. In a circumambient manner.

Example Sentences

The growling circumambient toils of London around them fadedbefore the calm of these innocent precincts.

Philip seemed really to be born again. He breathed the circumambient air as though he had never breathed it before, and he took a child's pleasure in all the facts of the world.

Thus gaiety and cheerfulness prevail, / Spreading from young to old, from old to young, / And no one seems to want his share.—Immense / Is the recess, the circumambient world / Magnificent, by which they are embraced: […]

Groups of citizens—broad-browed Roman colonists and coarse-haired Romanised natives, together with obvious hybrids of the two strains, alike clad in cheap woollen togas—and sprinklings of helmeted legionaries and coarse-mantled, black-bearded tribesmen of the circumambient Vascones—all thronged the few paved streets and forum; moved by some vague and ill-defined uneasiness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include circumstant, circumcontinental, inclusive, circumspatial, circumjacent, circumterraneous.

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