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Webster 1913 Edition
Circumvolution
1.
The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
2.
A thing rolled round another.
Arbuthnot.
3.
A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
He had neither time nor temper for sentimental
circumvolutions
. Beaconsfield.
Webster 1828 Edition
Circumvolution
CIRCUMVOLUTION
,Noun.
1.
The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled; also the thing rolled round another.2.
In architecture, the torus of the spiral line of the Ionic order.