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ecessary to attain the object in view. -- To make a circuit, to go around; to go a roundabout way. -- Voltaic or Galvanic circuit or circle, 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 e…

Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n.

A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.

A Latin preposition, used as a prefix in many English words, and signifying around or about.

A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness. [Obs.] S. Richardson.

To walk round about. -- Cir`cum*am`bu*la"tion, n.

A roundabout or indirect way. [Jocular] Goldsmith.

The act of running about; also, rambling language. [Obs.] Barrow.

To lead about; to lead astray. [R.]

A leading about; circumlocution. [R.] Hooker.

A winding about; a turning; a circuity; a fold.

Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house. Addison.

Shining around or about.

The act or process of carrying about. [Obs.] Circumgestation of the eucharist to be adored. Jer. Taylor.

he use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrese. the plain Billingagate way of calling names . . . would save abundance of time lost by circumlocution. Swift. Circumlocution office, a term of riducle for a governmental office where business is delaye…

About, or near, the meridian.

About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around the pole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.

The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.

To rotate about. [R.]

A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution. He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions. Beaconsfield.