circumjacent
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin circa (“around”) + jacēre (“to lie down”).
Adjective
circumjacent (not comparable)
- (archaic, literary) Lying or located in the area around something.
- Synonyms: surrounding, circumambient
- 1642, James Howell, Instructions for Forreine Travell, London: Humphrey Mosley, Section 3, p. 32,[1]
- […] some 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;
- 1781, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, Volume 6, Chapter 64, p. 289,[2]
- […] he had established his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes.
- 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, London: Chapman and Hall, Volume 2, Chapter 3, p. 36,[3]
- […] while the table was […] the lap of luxury […] the circumjacent region of the sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character:
- 1904, Henry James, The Golden Bowl, New York: Scribner, Volume 1, Chapter 8, p. 148,[4]
- 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.