Definition of "circumambient" [cir•cum•am•bi•ent]

• Encompassing on all sides; surrounding. (adjective)

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• "The point to this dissertation -- if point be allowed by courtesy -- is directed, in a measure, at a clergyman in this city, who told gleefully of the break of a church officer in a prayer meeting, and yet the same preacher on the following Sunday night, used, in a brief petition, the words "circumambient," "iridescent" and "corollary.""
• "Philosophy, on the contrary, tends to think of the transfer from circumambient cultural context to cultural artifact as a big mystery."
• "We are now beginning to understand the consequences of this new circumambient digital “reality.”"