circumvolvet (serkumvolv)

[= It. circon volgere, Whene'er we circumvolve our eyes. Herrick, On Fletcher's Incomparable Plays. To ascribe to each sphere an intelligence to circumvolve it were unphilosophical. Glanville, Scep. Sci. II. in trans. To roll around; revolve. E. Darwin . vehere, carry around, dep. circumvehi, ride around, about. E. Phillips, 1706. circumvent (ser-kum-vent'), v. t. [L. cir cumventus, pp. of cir cum venire (> F. circonvenir = Sp. circunvenir (obs.) = It. cir con venire), come around, encompa , beset, deceive, cheat, It might be the pate of a politician, one that could circumvent God, might it not? Circumvented thus by fraud. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. Milton , P. L., iii. 152. IMG:content-0467.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors] lution. See the piled floors of the sky, and their furniture, clouds, circumvolvence, contest, and war. H. Jennings, Rosicrucians, p. 75.