Obs. [ad. med.L. circāria ‘districtus circatoris’ (Du Cange), f. circāre to go round, f. circā around.] Eccles. The province of a circator or ‘Visitor.’
1882–3. Schaff, Relig. Encycl., III. 1890. [The order of Premonstrants] was then divided into thirty provinces, or ‘circaries,’ with a circator at the head of each.
