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Circumvolution: Definition and part of speech

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Circumvolution

  1. n. A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
  2. n. The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
  3. n. A thing rolled round another.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumstantiate: Definition and part of speech

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Circumstantiate

  1. v. t. To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning.
  2. v. t. To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumvallate: Definition and part of speech

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Circumvallate

  1. a. Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue.
  2. v. t. To surround with a rampart or wall.
  3. a. Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumvallation: Definition and part of speech

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Circumvallation

  1. n. A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.
  2. n. The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Circumstance: Definition and part of speech

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Circumstance

  1. v. t. To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.
  2. n. That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
  3. n. An event; a fact; a particular incident.
  4. n. Circumlocution; detail.
  5. n. Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.