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- noun Plural form of
circumgyration .
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Examples
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Dapple, and took his 'ante-prandial' and other 'circumgyrations' with absolute punctuality.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Leslie Stephen 1868
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The circumgyrations of a Hawk, when reconnoitring far aloft in the air, are singularly graceful.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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With his head spinning like a top, and his courage considerably above striking heat, Mike, after many circumgyrations, arrived in about half an hour on the frontier of the field of action.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832
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Round and round we twirled him, his outstretched living leg forming as pretty a fairy-ring on the green sod, with its circumgyrations, as can be imagined.
Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820
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