circumjacent

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
27
Words With Friends
35
Letters
12

Definition of circumjacent

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic, literary, not-comparable)Lying or located in the area arround something.
    “[S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, vvhere one may vievv with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, vvith the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.”
    “[H]e had establiſhed his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes.”
    “[W]hile the table was […] the lap of luxury […] the circumjacent region of the sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character: […]”
    “He had taken no trouble to indicate it to his fellow citizens, purveyors and consumers, in his own and the circumjacent commonwealths, of comic matter in large lettering, diurnally “set up,” printed, published, folded and delivered, at the expense of his presumptuous emulation of the snail.”

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Etymology

From Latin circa (“around”) + jacēre (“to lie down”).

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8-letter words

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7-letter words

32 words

6-letter words

91 words

5-letter words

65 words

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