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third-person singular simple present circumduces, present participle circumducing, simple past and past participle circumduced
(archaic, law, Scotland, transitive) To declare elapsed, as the time allowed for introducing evidence. quotations
But come, Dominie, I have allowed you a competent space to express your feelings. I must circumduce the term; you must let me proceed in my examination.
1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […]