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.
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vb. (present participle of circumnavigate English)
Usage examples of "circumnavigating".
Sir Francis Drake, too, embarked on his voyage for circumnavigating the globe, in 1577, with five vessels, of which the largest was of one hundred, and the smallest fifteen tons.
Did n't ask him one word about what he had seen or heard, but gave him full details of my private history, I having never been off my own hearth-rug for more than an hour or two at a time, while he was circumnavigating and circumrailroading the globe.
Some of them are circumnavigating the planet while he is hitching his rocking chair about his hearth-rug.
By these means, the circumnavigating Pequod would sweep almost all the known Sperm Whale cruising grounds of the world, previous to descending upon the Line in the Pacific.
I'm not a spaceman, but even I can see that we are, at the moment, just circumnavigating the fringe of the galaxy.
By circumnavigating the plate and at the same time stretching its neck to the utmost it had contrived to convert the shapeless lagoon into a perfectly symmetrical pond just out of the reach of the stubby tongue.