circumpass

verb

circumpass

verb

Etymology From circum- + pass.

1

To go around; to span.

  • Pythagoras hath made God, a spirit dispersed through the Nature of all things, whence our soules are derived. Parmenides, a Circle circumpassing [translating entournant] the heavens, and by the heat of light maintaining the world., II.12

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