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circumambient [ˌsɜːkəmˈæmbɪənt] adj surrounding [from Late Latin circumambīre, from circum- + ambīre to go round] circumambience , circumambiency n How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 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. Whether marching amid his aides and marshals in the van of countless cohorts that endlessly streamed it over the plains, like an Ohio; or whether with his circumambient subjects browsing all around at the horizon, the White Steed gallopingly reviewed them with warm nostrils reddening through his cool milkiness; in whatever aspect he presented himself, always to the bravest Indians he was the object of trembling reverence and awe. Captain Ellis looked upon himself as a sort of divine (pagan) emanation, the deputy-Neptune for the circumambient seas. |
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