Word Meanings - CIRCUM- - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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• LATINIZATION
  The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• PREFIX
  prae before + figere to fix: cf. F. préfix fixed beforehand, 1. To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement. 2. To set or appoint beforehand; to settle
• AROUND
  1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round. 2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space; all about; as, to travel around from town to town. 3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing around when the fight took
• LATINITY
  The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley.
• SIGNIFY
  1. To show by a sign; to communicate by any conventional token, as words, gestures, signals, or the like; to announce; to make known; to declare; to express; as, a signified his desire to be present. I 'll to the king; and signify to him That thus
• LATIN
  Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. 2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins;
• ENGLISHRY
  1. The state or privilege of being an Englishman. Cowell. 2. A body of English or people of English descent; -- commonly applied to English people in Ireland. A general massacre of the Englishry. Macaulay.
• LATINLY
  In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. Heylin.
• LATINISTIC
  Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. "Latinistic words." Fitzed. Hall.
• LATINITASTER
  One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.
• ENGLISHABLE
  Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.
• ENGLISHMAN
  A native or a naturalized inhabitant of England.
• LATINIST
  One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.
• PREFIXION
  The act of prefixing. Bailey.
• ABOUT-SLEDGE
  The largest hammer used by smiths. Weale.
• PREPOSITIONAL
  Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition. Early. -- Prep`o*si"tion*al*ly, adv.
• ENGLISHISM
  1. A quality or characteristic peculiar to the English. M. Arnold. 2. A form of expression peculiar to the English language as spoken in England; an Anglicism.
• OSCILLATING
  That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.
• VACILLATING
  Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• PLATINIRIDIUM
  A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
• GELATINATION
  The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• GELATINIZATION
  See GELATINATION
• NASOPALATAL; NASOPALATINE
  Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.
• OSCILLATING CURRENT
  A current alternating in direction.
• PLATINOID
  Resembling platinum.
• PLATINICHLORIC
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid.
• NITROGELATIN
  An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
• RACEABOUT
  A small sloop-rigged racing yacht carrying about six hundred square feet of sail, distinguished from a knockabout by having a short bowsprit.
• SWORDSMAN
  1. A soldier; a fighting man. 2. One skilled of a use of the sword; a professor of the science of fencing; a fencer.