Crossword clues for circumnavigated
circumnavigated
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumnavigate \Cir`cum*nav"i*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Circumnavigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Circumnavigating.] [L. circumnavigatus, p. p. of circumnavigare to sail round; circum + navigare to navigate.] To sail completely round.
Having circumnavigated the whole earth.
--T. Fuller.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: circumnavigate)
Usage examples of "circumnavigated".
In the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, European sailing ships discovered new continents (new, at any rate, to Europeans) and circumnavigated the planet.
Four hundred years before Eratosthenes, Africa had been circumnavigated by a Phoenician fleet in the employ of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho.
Not only was it the time of Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras and others in Ionia, but also the time of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho who caused Africa to be circumnavigated, of Zoroaster in Persia, Confucius and Lao-tse in China, the Jewish prophets in Israel, Egypt and Babylon, and Gautama Buddha in India.
Was it possible, they wondered, that they were seeing the Milky Way and M31 from the other direction - like seeing the back of your head with light that has circumnavigated the universe?
A walkway circumnavigated the room, eight feet wide and without a rail.
We circumnavigated it, crawling on our stomachs next to the roots of the boxwood.
Once they were confident they had circumnavigated the city, they angled back toward the ocean until they found the southern road in.