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circumambulator en · NOUN

Etymology

Latin

Meanings

1. Someone who walks around something.
   • TUAPHOLL. A term used by the Druids to designate an unhallowed circumambulation around the sacred cairn, or altar, the movement being against the sun, that is, from west to east by the north, the cairn being on the left hand of the circumambulator. 1882, Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry:
   • Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth. 1786, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:

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