circumduct, v.
(sɜːkəmˈdʌkt)
[f. L. circumdūct-, ppl. stem of circumdūcĕre: see prec.]
1. trans. † a. In general sense: To lead or convey round or about. Obs. b. Phys. To carry or move round an axis.
| 1599 Nashe Lenten Stuffe (1871) 88 About and about the inward and base court they circumducted him. 1624 Heywood Gunaik. ii. 99 One Martha whom Marcius most honourablie circumducted in a horse-litter. 1839–47 Todd Cycl. Anat. III. 790/1 The recti muscles are..capable of circumducting the cornea in all directions. 1885 T. Holmes Surgery (ed. 3) I. 1077 The thigh should be..circumducted inwards. |
2. Law. To cancel, annul. (Cf. circumduce 2.)
| 1726 Ayliffe Parerg. 28 Acts of Judicature may be cancelled and circumducted by the Will..of the Judge. Ibid. 196 The citation may be circumducted in Judgment, tho' the Defendant should not appear. |