circumjacent

English

Etymology

From Latin circa (“around”) + jacēre (“to lie down”).

Adjective

circumjacent (not comparable)

1. (literary, archaic) Lying or located in the area arround something.

   Synonyms: circumambient, surrounding

   • 1642, James Howell, “Section III”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC; republished as Edward Arber, editor, Instructions for Forreine Travell. […] (English Reprints; 16), London: [Alex. Murray & Son, 15 June 1869], →OCLC, page 21:

     [S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, where one may view with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, with the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.

   • 1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 289:

     [H]e had establiſhed his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes.

   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 36:

     [W]hile the table was […] the lap of luxury […] the circumjacent region of the sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character: […]

   • 1904 November 10, Henry James, chapter VIII, in The Golden Bowl, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book first (The Prince), part second, page 148:

     He had taken no trouble to indicate it to his fellow citizens, purveyors and consumers, in his own and the circumjacent commonwealths, of comic matter in large lettering, diurnally “set up,” printed, published, folded and delivered, at the expense of his presumptuous emulation of the snail.

See also

• adjacent
• interjacent
• jacent
• subjacent
• superjacent
• suprajacent