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circumambulate
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cir·cum·am·bu·late  (sûrkm-mby-lt)
tr.v. cir·cum·am·bu·lat·ed, cir·cum·am·bu·lat·ing, cir·cum·am·bu·lates
To walk around (something), especially as part of a ritual: "Circumambulate the city of a dreamy Sabbath afternoon" (Herman Melville).
circum·ambu·lation n.
circumambulate [ˌsɜːkəmˈæmbjʊˌleɪt]
vb
1. to walk around (something)
2. (intr) to avoid the point
[from Late Latin circum- + ambulāre to walk]
circumambulation  n
circumambulator  n
circumambulatory  adj
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Verb1.circumambulatecircumambulate - walk around something                
walk around
circle - travel around something; "circle the globe"


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We even have people circumambulating the Ka'bah while their cell phones are ringing--this is a blasphemy of the worst kind that you can imagine.
Islam, Muslims, and modern technology by Nasr, Seyyed Hossein / Islam & Science
The ritual involves going to the sacred mosque at Mecca, circumambulating the cubic structure called the Ka'ba, which is believed to be the one shrine erected to the worship of the one true God by Abraham and Ishmael.
Don't know much about Islam? (interview) by U.S. Catholic
Circumambulating the piece clockwise, as in rituals prescribed for sacred sites, one passed a sequence of blind and inaccessible walls.
Jannis Kounellis. (Reviews: Rome) by Panicelli, Ida / Artforum International
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