cir cum are a (serkuma rea)

[L. circum, about, around, + area, area.] In math., the area of a circumscribed circle. circumbendibus (sér-kum-ben'di-bus), n. L. circum, around, + E. bend1, jocularly treated as if it were Latin, and put in the form of a dative or ablative plural (case-suffix -ibus ).] A roundabout way; a circumlocution. [Jocose.] The periphrasis, which the moderns call the circumben dib us . Martin us Scriblerus . I then introduced them to the gibbet on Heavy-Tree Heath; and from that, with a circumbendibus , I fairly lodged them in the horse-pond at the bottom of the garden. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, v. If you have no foundation of knowledge, or habit of thought, to work upon, what chance have you of persuading a hungry man that a capitalist is not a thief "with a circumbendibus"? Huxley, Lay Sermons, p. 37. Cir cum cell i on (sèr-kum-sel'ion), n.; pl. Circum cellions, Cir cum cell i ones (-ionz, -sel-i-o'nēz). [= F. Cir con cell i on, ML. Circulio ), a circle: see circle and circulus.] 1. One of a party of Donatists in northern Africa, chiefly peasants, IMG:content-0453.png:[blocks in formation] the material of which they are composed is harder and better able to withstand the action of the weather than that of the strata by which they were originally surrounded. [Little used.]