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Webster 1913 Edition

Circuit

Cir′cuit

,
Noun.
[F.
circuit
, fr. L.
circuitus
, fr.
circuire
or
circumire
to go around;
circum
around +
ire
to go.]
1.
The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution;
as, the periodical
circuit
of the earth round the sun
.
Watts.
2.
The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.
The
circuit
or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles.
J. Stow.
3.
That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
The golden
circuit
on my head.
Shakespeare
4.
The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.
A
circuit
wide inclosed with goodliest trees.
Milton.
5.
A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one’s calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
6.
(a)
(Law)
A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.
Bouvier
.
(b)
(Methodist Church)
A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.
7.
Circumlocution.
[Obs.]
“Thou hast used no circuit of words.”
Huloet.
Circuit court
(Law)
,
a court which sits successively in different places in its circuit (see
Circuit
, 6). In the United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special
circuit judge
, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also have circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction of the same class, in matters of State cognizance.
–
Circuit of action
or
Circuity of action
(Law)
,
a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to attain the object in view.
–
To make a circuit
,
to go around; to go a roundabout way.
–
Voltaic circle
or
Galvanic circle
or
Voltaic circuit
or
Galvanic circuit
,
a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established.

Cir′cuit

,
Verb.
I.
To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.
[Obs.]
J. Philips.

Cir′cuit

,
Verb.
T.
To travel around.
[Obs.]
“Having circuited the air.”
T. Warton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Circuit

CIRCUIT

, n.
1.
The act of moving or passing round; as the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun, or of the moon round the earth.

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