circumforanean
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin circumforaneus + -an.
Adjective
[edit]circumforanean (comparative more circumforanean, superlative most circumforanean)
- (obsolete) Wandering from market to market; vagabond, itinerant.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:, New York, 2001, p.209:
- […] I am the bolder to insert, as not borrowed from circumforanean rogues and gypsies, but out of the writings of worthy philosophers and physicians […]