circumambiency

English

Noun

circumambiency (countable and uncountable, plural circumambiencies)

1. The condition of being circumambient
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     ice receiveth its figure according unto the surface wherein it concreteth, or the circumambiency which conformeth it