Definition of "circumjacent" []

• Lying around; surrounding. (adjective)

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• "“Even,” proceeds Sir Leicester, glancing at the circumjacent cousins on sofas and ottomans, “even in many — in fact, in most — of those places in which the government has carried it against a faction —”"
• "As soon as I had alighted at an inn and had drunk my tea, I went out immediately to see the town and the circumjacent country."
• "Ah! there is good blood in that old city, and in the whole circumjacent region of which it is the capital."