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Circumforanean

CIRCUMFORANEAN

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circumforanean

circumforanean

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Adjective

circumforanean (comparative more circumforanean, superlative most circumforanean)

  1. (obsolete) Wandering from market to market; vagabond, itinerant.
    • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.209:
      [] I am the bolder to insert, as not borrowed from circumforanean rogues and gypsies, but out of the writings of worthy philosophers and physicians […].