circumforanean

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English

Etymology

From Latin circumforaneus +‎ -an.

Adjective

circumforanean (comparative more circumforanean, superlative most circumforanean)

  1. (obsolete) Wandering from market to market; vagabond, itinerant.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York, 2001, p.209:
      I am the bolder to insert, as not borrowed from circumforanean rogues and gypsies, but out of the writings of worthy philosophers and physicians