单词 | circumforaneous |
释义 | circumforaneous, a. Now rare or Obs.|ˌsɜːkəmfɒˈreɪniːəs| [f. L. circumforāne-us (f. circum + forum market) + -ous.] Strolling from market to market; wandering, vagrant, vagabond; quack.
1650J. Brinsley An Antidote 29. 1651 Baxter Inf. Baptism iv. 235 A Circumforaneous Antidote. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. viii. 219 The circumforaneous Emperick. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xvi, A kind of circumforaneous Masking or Mumming. 1711Addison Spect. No. 47 ⁋6, I mean those circumforaneous Wits, whom every Nation calls by the Name of that Dish of Meat which it likes best..in Italy, Maccaronies; and in Great Britain, Jack Puddings. 1827Cullen Lect. Hist. Medicine Wks. 1827 I. 373 At first they practised in a circumforaneous manner. ¶ Translating L. circumforāneus in senses (a) carried about for expiation, (b) movable.
1822T. Taylor Apuleius iii. 47 Those who, with lustral sacrifices, expiate, by circumforaneous victims, the anger of the Gods. Ibid. iv. 77 Towers formed from the junction of planks, after the manner of a circumforaneous house. |

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