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circuire [CLusu.circumire], ~ere 1 (of persons or animals) to go round, roam about. b to express oneself in a roundabout way. c (trans.) to go round (an object), encircle. d to traverse, search through. V. et. circum 1b. 9‥ exorbitantes, i. ~ientes, declinantes, aswifende WW; nec cum meretricibus circumeundo fornicetur (Quad.) GAS 290; falcones a falcando, quia in falcis modum ~eundo perlustrant Gir. TH I 12; nocte tota circumeundo gyrovagus ‥ excubare solebat Id. EH II 8; ~eundo per patriam vendebant litteras sigillatas Gascoigne Loci 126. b Vinsauf CR 325 (v. circuitio e). c s1190 classis regis ‥ Hispaniam ~it Devizes 28v; s1191 intrantes galeas ‥ ~ierunt totam insulam Cypre G. Ric. I 166; sacerdos ‥ thurificando altare ~eat [v. l. circumeat] Offic. Sal. 25. d 1240 mandavit ‥ villatas proximas, que venerunt et ~erunt parcum SelPlForest 72; c1370 ‘qui calles gyrant’ i. qui ~ent occultas semitas, cujusmodi sunt exploratores in bellis vel qui ~ent terras debellare eas (J. Bridl. gl.) Pol. Poems I 181. 2 to go round as visitor or inspector, make the rounds; b (w. place as obj); c (w. group of persons as obj.). ~eundo per cellas magistrorum Bede HE III 27; hi religiose ‥ in circumeundo debent incedere et exemplum religionis videntibus ostendere; dum circumeunt, nulli signum faciant Lanfr. Const. 145; [episcopi]per abbatias ‥ tresmenses anni ‥ ~endo et hospitando consumere consueverant Gir. JS I p. 145; si quos invenerit ‥ in ~iendo defectus Cust. Westm. 15. b apostolorum ‥ limina ~isti Aldh. VirgP 25; cepit ~ire ‥ casulas Bede HE III 8; ~iens omnia prope vel longe, invenit locum ‥ aptum Ib. IV 4; 747 ut episcopi ‥ omni anno parrochias suas singuli ~irent (Syn. Clofesho) W. Malm. GP I 5; est ejus [circae] officium saepius ~ire claustrum, ne forte inveniatur frater accidiosus RegulC 57; archipresul ‥ volens ‥ provinciam, a qua tam diu absens fuerat, ~ire H. Bos. Thom. V 8; archilevita celer, qui terram circuit omnem Nig. Poems (Mir. BV M) 413; s1251 [episcopus Linc’] in dormitorio lectos monachorum in propria persona perscrutando omnia ~it M. Par. Maj. V 226; 1340 in expensis domini prioris circumeundo maneria prioratus Ac. Durh. 539. c 796 non cesset ‥ pes tuus ~iendo gregem tibi commissum Alcuin Ep. 114. 3 (of things) to move round (intr.). b to revolve round (trans.). c to entwine. d to surround, extend round. nec aqua circu[i]et in circuitu mundi Bacon Maj. I 294 (cf. ib. III 133). b orbis / ‥ volubilis axem / circuit immotum Hanv. VIII 338 p. 370. c 1245 vinea ~ens leonem Invent. S. Paul. 472. d orbiculari sepe ignis iste ~itur Gir. TH II 36; 1237 infra muros qui circuunt gaiolam nostram Cl 502; 1239 infra fossatum qui ~it campum E. Ch. S. Paul. 271; circumibat illud [fortalicium] aqua ‥ latitudinis duarum ‥ lancearum G. Hen. V 14. 4 to involve (fig.), concern. quasdam questiones ejus [sc. temporis] naturam ~entes reserabimus Bacon VIII 227. 5 to surround, encircle (one thing w. another). 1292 (v. circumferentia 1d); alios tres holmos de marisco ~ivit fossato salicino Whittlesey 157.

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