circumduce
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
See circumduct.
Verb[edit]
circumduce (third-person singular simple present circumduces, present participle circumducing, simple past and past participle circumduced)
- (archaic, law, Scotland, transitive) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence.
- 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
- But come, Dominie, I have allowed you a competent space to express your feelings. I must circumduce the term; you must let me proceed in my examination.
References[edit]
“circumduce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
circumdūce