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Circumambulate   Listen
verb
Circumambulate  v. t.  To walk round about.






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"Circumambulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was the assumed labour of a life to circumambulate, was discovered in January 1843, by Messrs. Landor and Lefroy, who found it about 100 miles South-South-East from Beverley. It is quite salt, called Dambeling, and about fifteen miles long by seven and a ...
— Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. • J Lort Stokes

... order to preserve their eyes in good health; and both colic and sore eyes are in Germany, and probably elsewhere, set down to the machinations of witches. Once more, to leap over the midsummer fires or to circumambulate them is thought to prevent a person from feeling pains in his back at reaping; and in Germany such pains are called ...
— The Golden Bough - A study of magic and religion • Sir James George Frazer



Words linked to "Circumambulate" :   walk around



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