circumambulator

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English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

circumambulator (plural circumambulators)

  1. Someone who walks around something.
    • 1786, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson:
      Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth.
    • 1882, Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry:
      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.

Latin

Verb

circumambulātor

  1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of circumambulō