Saturday, March 28, 2015

Word of the Day

circumvolve
\sur-kuhm-VOLV\
verb
1. to revolve or wind about.

Quotes
Upon my soul, I believe there is not a Letter in those words, round which a world of imagery does not circumvolve…
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge to Sir Humphrey Davy, October 9, 1800, in Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1, 1895

Origin
Circumvolve came to English in the late 1500s from the Latin circumvolvere meaning "to roll round."

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