Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A voyage around a sea, or around a land; circumnavigation.
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- noun a
circumnavigation ; a seavoyage around a coastline - noun a record of such a voyage
Etymologies
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Examples
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With favoring winds it is wafted past the site of the fabulous islands of Atlantis and the Hesperides, makes the periplus of Hanno, and, floating by Ternate and Tidore and the mouth of the
Walden 2004
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Well, coasting these waters, I rely mainly on my remembrance of landmarks, or a periplus if they're less familiar to me.
Genesis ANDERSON, Poul 2000
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Eratosthenes (275-195 B.C.), and author of a periplus and a collection of
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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[FN#141] One of the chief festivals of Osiris, during which the god made a periplus.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895
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Sicily, alike as regards the Phaeacian and the Ithaca scenes; while the voyages of Ulysses, when once he is within easy reach of Sicily, solve themselves into a periplus of the island, practically from Trapani back to Trapani, via the Lipari islands, the Straits of Messina, and the island of Pantellaria;
The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868
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Thus, in seven months and four days, the first circumpolar periplus had been accomplished by a navigator of only twenty-two years of age.
The Waif of the "Cynthia" Jules Verne 1866
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The journals had a great deal to say about the new periplus.
The Waif of the "Cynthia" Jules Verne 1866
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The first that he opened was an invitation from the Geographical Society of France, asking him and his companions to come and receive a handsome medal, which had been voted in a solemn conclave "to the navigators of the first circumpolar periplus of the arctic seas."
The Waif of the "Cynthia" Jules Verne 1866
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_ Laureate of the Geographical Society, author of the first circumpolar periplus, and afflicted with the modest income of two hundred thousand dollars.
The Waif of the "Cynthia" Jules Verne 1866
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The Greeks found themselves able to practice with good effect their favorite manoeuvre of the _periplus_, and thus increased the confusion.
pavonine commented on the word periplus
a voyage or trip around something
November 20, 2007