Meaning of circumforaneous | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Wandering from place to place or market to market.
2. Indirect, roundabout, or unnecessarily complex.
   broadly

Equivalents

Examples

“Gyrovagues: Monks who were accustomed to wander⟳ from place⟳ to place⟳. In modern times, perhaps, any of the various circumforaneous proselytizers who go from door to door—Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, et al.”

“It is perfect for a thirteen-year-old child of NoVA when in the throes of another fit of aimlessness and maddening, ravenous boredom in which only the entering of a mall, the circumforaneous wandering amid others of your kind, or the buying of a CD (usually more like⟳ the stealing of a CD) can cure the disease.”

“The reason⟳ that this has not been the subject of extended commentary in science studies was that the path along which thermodynamics wrought its magic was unprecedentedly indirect and circumforaneous:[…]”

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