Definition for CIR-CUM-VO-LU'TION

CIR-CUM-VO-LU'TION, n.

  1. The act of rolling round; state of being rolled; also, the thing rolled round another. – Arbuthnot. Wilkins.
  2. In architecture, the torus of the spiral line of the Ionic order. – Encyc.

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