Circumvolation

Quick meaning: Circumvolation is a noun meaning The act of flying round.

Meaning

The act of flying round.

More Meanings

1. The act of surrounding with a military force; the creation of a cordon.
2. Circulation; the act of moving around something.
3. (figurative) Vacillation; the act of changing one's mind repeatedly.

Example Sentences

It may be conjectured that the circumvolation of these moved the ether, and occasioned that whistling, the gentle pleasantness of which bore an adequate agreement with their well-timed motion.

Favourable conditions permitted the "circumvolation" of the world in twenty-four hours. But flying had not become general and was still the exclusive privilege of the council and its supporters.

It has already been shown that, in the popular game of "the flyers," a high pole surmounted by one man served as the pivot for the circumvolation of the four performers, who "acted" the "flight of time."

In Consequence a Party of the Rangers was instantly Detached thither to Assist in Pursuing them &c And About the Same Time, the long Projected Cordon or Path of Circumvolation was also begun to be Cut by 700 Negro Slaves Around the Colony, […]

Word Forms

• circumvolations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include circumnavigation, circumgyration, circumcursation, circination, circumversion, circuition.

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