Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a circular movement of a limb or eye;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Circumduction \Cir`cum*duc"tion\, n. [L. circumductio.]
1. A leading about; circumlocution. [R.] --Hooker.
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2. An annulling; cancellation. [R.] --Ayliffe.
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3. (Physiol.) The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis,
so as to describe a conical surface.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
circumduction
n 1: a circular movement of a limb or eye
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
CIRCUMDUCTION, Scotch law. A term applied to the time allowed for bringing
proof of allegiance, which being elapsed, if either party sue for
circumduction of the time of proving, it has the effect that no proof can
afterwards be brought; and the cause must be determined as it stood when
circumduction was obtained. Tech. Dict.