Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Scots law, same as
circumduct , 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Scots Law) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
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- verb law, Scotland, transitive To
declare elapsed , as thetime allowed for introducingevidence .
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Well, fortune is apt to circumduce the term upon us; but I think she may allow you to revise your condescendence.”
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Qua me, qua uxorem, qua tu servom Sauream potes, circumduce, aufer; promitto tibi non offuturum, si id hodie effeceris.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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But come, Dominie; I have allowed you a competent space to express your feelingsI must circumduce the term; you must let me proceed in my examination.
Chapter L 1917
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I must circumduce the term; you must let me proceed in my examination. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Volume 02 Walter Scott 1801
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I must circumduce the term; you must let me proceed in my examination. '
Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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I must circumduce the term; you must let me proceed in my examination. '
Guy Mannering — Complete Walter Scott 1801
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I must circumduce the term; you must let me proceed in my examination.’
Guy Mannering 1815
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Coelorum circumvolutiones) illaeAfi - chaeli Havemanno in jiftraa, non plus fapere videntur, quam Ruflicm ille, quif ut Oanemy uno jijfe emtum, do - mum deduceret jcurrumtrahebat \ Nam cum Terram compendiojtus circumduce - re poffent, cur Orbem prius Immenfum circumtorquerent.
Experimenta nova (ut vocantur) magdeburgica de vacuo spatio Guericke, Otto von, 1602-1686 1672
qms commented on the word circumduce
The Old Firm are Glaswegian tribes
Whose loyalists hate circumscribes.
Why not call a truce
They can't circumduce
And give up the insults and jibes?
November 6, 2016
qms commented on the word circumduce
My self-assigned daily challenge is to write a limerick that rhymes on the Word of the Day (WotD). I have occasionally posted a limerick that included the WotD somewhere other than at the end of a line, but only rarely. A word like circumduce is especially troublesome because it is a transitive verb and it takes some engineering to place it naturally at the end of a line. I came up with a serviceable solution after reading that the word is an adornment of Scottish law. The Rangers and the Celtics (the “Old Firm”) are famously bitter football rivals in Glasgow, so it seemed apt to acknowledge a Scottish connection.
Not only is the verb transitive but it seems to pair with only one direct object – “term”. Every usage example uses the verb in the phrase “circumduce the term.” I bethought myself of some way of writing a limerick on that phrase rather than on the verb alone. It looked unlikely but there is perverse inspiration to be got from current events. The 2016 Clinton/Trump presidential election is two days away and it is a great stimulant to the imagination.
Elections circumduce the term
So pauses Trump to spruce his perm.
He thinks that election
Can spread his infection,
And gleefully he'll loose the germ.
November 6, 2016