a. [f. CIRCUM- 2 + L. terra earth: cf. terrestrial.] Situated, moving, etc., round the earth.
1830. T. Taylor, Arguments of Celsus, etc. 41. Circumterrestrial dæmons.
1867. Lockyer, Guillemins Heavens (ed. 2), 134. Its [the Moons] circum-terrestrial movement.