Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of placing round about; the state of being so placed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of positioning something
around something else; or the state of being so positioned - noun linguistics A pair of
adpositions that occur on either side of thecomplement - noun The act of
circumposing .
Etymologies
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circum- + position. From Latin circumpositio, from circumpōno ("I put round").
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Examples
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At Stephen’s suggestion, at Bloom’s instigation both, first Stephen, then Bloom, in penumbra urinated, their sides contiguous, their organs of micturition reciprocally rendered invisible by manual circumposition, their gazes, first
Ulysses 2003
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