[ad. L. circumpositiōn-em, f. circumpōnĕre; see prec.] The action of circumposing: see quots.
1660. Sharrock, Vegetables, 59. Circumposition is a kind of laying…. In this the mould is born up to the bough which is to be taken off. Ibid., 116. Dwarf trees made by circumposition.
1664. Evelyn, Kal. Hort. (1729), 193. Now is your season for circumposition by Tubs or Baskets of earth, and for laying of Branches to take root. Ibid. (1675), Terra (1776), 65. That the hotter dungs approach not immediately to their … roots, without such a Circumposition of natural mould.
1849–52. Todd, Cycl. Anat., IV. 832/1. These cells are designated by the name of globules of circumposition.
