circumfer

English

Etymology

Latin circumferre.

Verb

circumfer (third-person singular simple present circumfers, present participle circumfering or circumferring, simple past and past participle circumfered or circumferred)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To bear or carry around.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for circumfer in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Verb

circumfer

  1. second-person singular present active imperative of circumferō
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