Obs. Also circun-. [f. as prec.: see -ATE3. (Quot. 1578 perhaps implies a vb. circunde.)] trans. To surround, encompass.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 23. A strong enclosure, so circundated and compassed for the safe keeping of the hart and Lunges. Ibid., I. 32. That Cartilage … circundeth and compasseth … the head of the thigh.
1621. Quarles, Div. Poems, Esther. Don Phœbus fiery Steeds … That circundates in twice twelve hours the World.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., VI. (1682), 250. Within the circundating leaves.
1639. G. Daniel, Ecclus., xxviii. 73. Circumdate thy land With hedge of thorne.
1657. Tomlinson, Renou’s Disp., 291. Circumdated with little angust, long leaves.
So † Circumdant a. [ad. L. circumdant-em, pr. pple. of circumdăre], surrounding; Circumdation, the act of surrounding. Obs.
1600. W. Vaughan, Direct. f. Health (1633), 97. Because the circundant ayre is colder.
1645. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xv. (1658), 167. The coldness of the circumdant air.
1623. Cockeram, A compassing about … Circundation.
