Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or condition of being circumjacent.
  • noun That which is circumjacent.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Condition of being circumjacent, or of bordering on every side.

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Examples

  • a hope for the orators when one can make himself a Presidential peril by merely waving the red flag in the cave of the winds and tormenting the circumjacence with a brandish of abundant hands.

    The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Ambrose Bierce 1878

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