circumjacent
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Is circumjacent a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (literary, archaic) Lying or located in the area arround something.Examples: "[S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, where one may view with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, with the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it."; "[H]e had establiſhed his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes."; "[W]hile the table was […] the lap of luxury […] the circumjacent region of the sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character: […]"Synonyms: circumambient, surroundingarchaicliterarynot-comparable
Definition source: Wiktionary