circumnavigate
verb (used with object)
to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation.
circumnavigable
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a word derived from
circumnavigate.
Example Sentences
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Visitors to the aquarium set off on a grand, circumnavigable tour around the world's oceans, past sharks, bluefish, wreckfish and more.
From Time Magazine Archive
Henry, prince of Portugal, progress of discovery under; account of; considers Africa to be circumnavigable; conceives the idea of turning the trade of the East; establishes a naval college at Sagres; death.
From The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) by Washington Irving
Neco determined to try whether Africa was not circumnavigable.
From Ancient Egypt by George Rawlinson
It juts out to the northward from the main land of Indiana and Ohio, and is circumnavigable on the east, north, and west.
From North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope
Eudoxus thereupon concluded that Africa was circumnavigable, and presently sailed through the Mediterranean and out upon the Atlantic.
From The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest by John Fiske
