circum
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Whats interesting is that we had plenty of evidence in these same circum stances as to what would work and what would not.
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2015
In its romantic purity, this is a love that is outside time and circum stance, beyond good and evil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Periptere, from περὶ circum, and πτὲρον ala, which has a Wing round about.
From An Abridgment of the Architecture of Vitruvius Containing a System of the Whole Works of that Author by Claude Perrault
As circum means round about, so circumspect means, of course, cautious, careful.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Max Müller
Having a deficient portion of internal and proper warmth, minds of this class seek in the crowd circum fana for a warmth in common, which they do not possess singly.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
