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Circumambient

Circumambient \Cir`cum*am"bi*ent\, a. [Pref. circum- + ambient.] Surrounding; inclosing or being on all sides; encompassing. ``The circumambient heaven.''
--J. Armstrong.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
circumambient

1630s, from circum- + ambient.

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circumambient

a. 1 ascribing to all aspects of; encompassing. 2 surrounding. adv. in a circumambient manner

Usage examples of "circumambient".

The sole light in her cell was that of a dismal lamp, which, by its uncertain flickering, only dissipated the almost palpable obscurity, in a sufficient degree more assuredly to point out the circumambient horrors.

As I write these words, in the very moment, I feel that the whole air, the sunshine out yonder lighting up the ploughed earth, the distant sky, the circumambient ether, and that far space, is full of soul-secrets, soul-life, things outside the experience of all the ages.

On the front shelf of the bar stood a large German-silver pitcher of water, and scattered about were ill-conditioned lamps, with wicks that always wanted picking, which burned red and smoked a good deal, and were apt to go out without any obvious cause, leaving strong reminiscences of the whale-fishery in the circumambient air.

Its rotundity was first lost, it assumed the semblance of a featureless disk of pallid light, which swiftly widened till it obscured all else, then seemed to advance upon and envelope her bodily, so that she became spiritually a part of it, an atom of identity engulfed in a limpid world of glareless light, light that had had no rays and issued from no source but was circumambient and universal.

India blossomed, a circumambient vista from light-years distant, centuries ago.

It was a concession to the circumambient enemy, of whom even a good friend was apart, and not better than a respectful emissary.

With the complete obliteration of all circumambient space, the wind fell.

Instead, each individual vessel was blasting at maximum for the position in space in which it would form one unit of a formation englobing at a distance of light-years the entire Solarian System, and each of those hurtling hundreds of ships was literally combing all circumambient space with its furiously-driven detector beams.

Its rotundity was first lost, it assumed the semblance of a featureless disk of pallid light, which swiftly widened till it obscured all else, then seemed to advance upon and envelope her bodily, so that she became spiritually a part of it, an atom of identity engulfed in a limpid world of glareless light, light that had had no rays and issued from no source but was circumambient and universal.

Conspicuous elsewhere, his own colourlessness easily merged with the circumambient grey.

India blossomed, a circumambient vista from light-years distant, centuries ago.

With the complete obliteration of all circumambient space, the wind fell.

Gately'd never even let an unhealthy strung-out-type female go into the head for at least an hour after he'd taken a dump in there, out of embarrassment, and now this sickening circumambient creature had with her own Fleet syringe and soft hands summoned a loose pathetic dump from the anus of Bimmy Gately, which anus she had thus seen close up, producing a dump.