circumponere

circumponere [CL] 1 to put round, wrap round. corrigiam ‥ bufoni circulariter ‥ ~am Gir. TH I 31; cinctorium suum collo bestie ~posuit R. Cold. Godr. 113; viridem sibi circumponit amictum H. Avr. Hugh 28. 2 (p. ppl. ~positus): a lying round, surrounding. b (w. abl.) encircled, adorned w. a circle (of). a ~a quaeque loca eodem lumine perfundi non dubitas Bede TR 7; ~a queque clare conspexit R. Cold. Cuthb. 121; s1235 occurrunt ‥ clerici ex regionibus ~is Wend. III 111. b c1420 annulus ~us iiij lapidibus parvis et iiij perels parvis Fabr. York 296.

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