circumterrestrial
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of circumterrestrial
First recorded in 1820–30; circum- + terrestrial
Example Sentences
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For it is perhaps requisite not to disbelieve in wise men, who say that the greater part of circumterrestrial d�mons are conglutinated to generation, and are delighted with blood, with the odour and vapour of flesh, with melodies and with other things of the like kind**; to which being bound, they are unable to effect any thing superior to the sanction of the body, and the prediction of future events to men and cities.
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