The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumjacent \Cir`cum*ja"cent\, a. [L. circumjacens, p. pr. of
circumjacere; circum + jac[=e]re to lie.]
Lying round; bordering on every side.
--T. Fuller.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. lying around; surrounding
Usage examples of "circumjacent".
THE said overseers having determined the place at which the grammer school for their district shall be built, shall forthwith (unless they can otherwise agree with the proprietors of the circumjacent lands as to location and price) make application to the clerk of the county in which the said house is to be situated, who shall thereupon issue a writ, in the nature of a writ of ad quod damnum, directed to the sheriff of the said county commanding him to summon and impannel twelve fit persons to meet at the place, so destined for the grammer school-house, on a certain day, to be named in the said writ, not less than five, nor more than ten, days from the date thereof.
Pumblechook might have said, the lap of luxury – being entirely furnished forth from the coffee-house – the circumjacent region of sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character: imposing on the waiter the wandering habits of putting the covers on the floor (where he fell over them), the melted butter in the armchair, the bread on the bookshelves, the cheese in the coalscuttle, and the boiled fowl into my bed in the next room – where I found much of its parsley and butter in a state of congelation when I retired for the night.