Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter C - Page 63
Circumstantiated (imp. & p. p.) of Circumstantiate.
Circumstantiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Circumstantiate.
Circumstantiate (v. t.) 證實；詳加說明 To place in particular circumstances; to invest with particular accidents or adjuncts. [R.]
If the act were otherwise circumstantiated, it might will that freely which now it wills reluctantly. -- Bramhall.
Circumstantiate (v. t.) To prove or confirm by circumstances; to enter into details concerning.
Neither will time permint to circumstantiate these particulars, which I have only touched in the general. -- State Trials
Circumstantiate (v.) Give circumstantial evidence for.
Circumterraneous (a.) Being or dwelling around the earth. "Circumterraneous demouns." -- H. Hallywell.
Circumundulate (v. t.) To flow round, as waves. [R.]
Circumvallate (v. t.) To surround with a rampart or wall. -- Johnson.
Circumvallate (a.) Surrounded with a wall; inclosed with a rampart.
Circumvallate (a.) (Anat.) Surrounded by a ridge or elevation; as, the circumvallate papillae, near the base of the tongue.
Circumvallate (v.) Surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification.
Circumvallation (n.) (Mil.) The act of surrounding with a wall or rampart.
Circumvallation (n.) (Mil.) A line of field works made around a besieged place and the besieging army, to protect the camp of the besiegers against the attack of an enemy from without.
Circumvection (n.) The act of carrying anything around, or the state of being so carried.
Circumvented (imp. & p. p.) of Circumvent.
Circumventing (p. pr. vb. n.) of Circumvent.
Circumvent (v. t.) 以智取勝；規避；防止……發生；環繞；包圍；使落入圈套；陷害 To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; to decieve; to delude; to get around.
I circumvented whom I could not gain. -- Dryden.
Circumvent (v.) Surround so as to force to give up; "The Turks besieged Vienna" [syn: besiege, beleaguer, surround, hem in, circumvent].
Circumvent (v.) Beat through cleverness and wit; "I beat the traffic"; "She outfoxed her competitors" [syn: outwit, overreach, outsmart, outfox, beat, circumvent].
Circumvent (v.) Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep].
Circumvention (n.) The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
A school in which he learns sly circumvention. -- Cowper.
Circumvention (n.) The act of evading by going around.
Circumvention, () Torts, Scotch law. Any act of fraud whereby a person is reduced to a deed by decree. Tech. Dict. It has the same sense in the civil law. Dig. 50, 17, 49 et 155; Id. 12, 6, 6, 2; Id. 41, 2, 34. Vide Parphrasis.
Circumventive (a.) Tending to circumvent; deceiving by artifices; deluding.
Circumventor (n.) [L.] One who circumvents; one who gains his purpose by cunning.
Circumvest (v. t.) To cover round, as with a garment; to invest. [Obs.]
Circumvested with much prejudice. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Circumvolant (a.) Flying around.
The circumvolant troubles of humanity. -- G. Macdonald.
Circumvolation (n.) The act of flying round. [R.]
Circumvolution (n.) The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
Circumvolution (n.) A thing rolled round another. -- Arbuthnot.
Circumvolution (n.) A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions. -- Beaconsfield.
Circumvolution (n.) The act of turning or winding or folding around a central axis.
Circumvolved (imp. & p. p.) of Circumvolve.
Circumvolving (p. pr. vb. n.) of Circumvolve.
Circumvolve (v. t.) To roll round; to cause to revolve; to put into a circular motion.
Circumvolve (v. i.) To roll round; to revolve.
Circumvolve (v.) Cause to turn on an axis or center; "Rotate the handle" [syn: rotate, circumvolve].
Circuses (n. pl. ) of Circus.
Circus (n.) (Roman Antiq.) A level oblong space surrounded on three sides by seats of wood, earth, or stone, rising in tiers one above another, and divided lengthwise through the middle by a barrier around which the track or course was laid out. It was used for chariot races, games, and public shows.
Note: The Circus Maximus at Rome could contain more than 100,000 spectators. -- Harpers' Latin Dict.
Circus (n.) A circular inclosure for the exhibition of feats of horsemanship, acrobatic displays, etc. Also, the company of performers, with their equipage.
Circus (n.) Circuit; space; inclosure. [R.]
The narrow circus of my dungeon wall. -- Byron.
Circus (n.) A travelling company of entertainers; including trained animals; "he ran away from home to join the circus."
Circus (n.) A performance given by a traveling company of acrobats, clowns, and trained animals; "the children always love to go to the circus."
Circus (n.) A frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a large public entertainment; "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere" [syn: circus, carnival].
Circus (n.) (Antiquity) An open-air stadium for chariot races and gladiatorial games.
Circus (n.) An arena consisting of an oval or circular area enclosed by tiers of seats and usually covered by a tent; "they used the elephants to help put up the circus."
Circus (n.) A genus of haws comprising the harriers [syn: Circus, genus Circus].
Circus, (n.) A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.
Cirl bunting () (Zool.) A European bunting ({Emberiza cirlus).
Cirque (n.) A circle; a circus; a circular erection or arrangement of objects.
A dismal cirque Of Druid stones upon a forlorn moor. -- Keats.
Cirque (n.) A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.
Cirque (n.) A steep-walled semicircular basin in a mountain; may contain a lake [syn: cirque, corrie, cwm].
Cirrate (a.) (Zool.) Having cirri along the margin of a part or organ.
Cirrhiferous (a.) See Cirriferous.
Cirrhose (a.) Same as Cirrose.
Cirrose (a.) (Bot.) Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
Cirrose (a.) (Bot.) Resembling a tendril or cirrus. [Spelt also cirrhose.]
Cirrhosis (n.) (Med.) A disease of the liver in which it usually becomes smaller in size and more dense and fibrous in consistence; hence sometimes applied to similar changes in other organs, caused by increase in the fibrous framework and decrease in the proper substance of the organ.
Cirrhosis (n.) A chronic disease interfering with the normal functioning of the liver; the major cause is chronic alcoholism [syn: cirrhosis, cirrhosis of the liver].
Cirrhotic (a.) Pertaining to, caused by, or affected with, cirrhosis; as, cirrhotic degeneration; a cirrhotic liver.
Cirrhous (a.) See Cirrose.
Cirrhus (n.) Same as Cirrus.
Cirri (n. pl.) See Cirrus.
Cirrus (n.; pl. Cirri.) [Also written cirrhus.] (Bot.) A tendril or clasper.
Cirrus (n.) (Zool.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.
Cirrus (n.) (Zool.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polych[ae]ta.
Note: In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function.
Cirrus (n.) (Zool.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
Cirrus (n.) (Meteor.) See under Cloud.
Cirrhus (n.) Usually coiled [syn: cirrus, cirrhus].
Cirriferous (a.) Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.
Cirriform (a.) (Biol.) Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.
Cirrigerous (a.) (Biol.) Having curled locks of hair; supporting cirri, or hairlike appendages.
Cirrigrade (a.) (Biol.) Moving or moved by cirri, or hairlike appendages.
Cirriped (n.) (Zool.) One of the Cirripedia.
Cirriped (n.) Marine crustaceans with feathery food-catching appendages; free-swimming as larvae; as adults form a hard shell and live attached to submerged surfaces [syn: barnacle, cirriped, cirripede].
Cirripedia (n. pl.) (Zool.) 蔓足亞綱 An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.
Cirripedia (n.) Barnacles [syn: Cirripedia, subclass Cirripedia].
Cirrobranchiata (n. pl.) (Zool.) A division of Mollusca having slender, cirriform appendages near the mouth; the Scaphopoda.
Cirro-cumulus (n.) (Meteor.) See under Cloud.
Cirrose (a.) (Bot.) Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
Cirrose (a.) (Bot.) Resembling a tendril or cirrus. [Spelt also cirrhose.]
Cirrostomi (n. pl.) (Zool.) The lowest group of vertebrates; -- so called from the cirri around the mouth; the Leptocardia. See Amphioxus.
Cirro-stratus (n.) (Meteor.) See under Cloud.
Cirrous (a.) (Bot.) Cirrose.
Cirrous (a.) (Zool.) Tufted; -- said of certain feathers of birds.
Cirri (n. pl. ) of Cirrus.
Cirrus (n.) (Bot.) A tendril or clasper.
Cirrus (n.) (Zool.) A soft tactile appendage of the mantle of many Mollusca, and of the parapodia of Annelida. Those near the head of annelids are Tentacular cirri; those of the last segment are caudal cirri.
Cirrus (n.) (Zool.) The jointed, leglike organs of Cirripedia. See Annelida, and Polychaeta.
Note: In some of the inferior animals the cirri aid in locomotion; in others they are used in feeding; in the Annelida they are mostly organs of touch. Some cirri are branchial in function.
Cirrus (n.) (Zool.) The external male organ of trematodes and some other worms, and of certain Mollusca.
Cirrus (n.) (Metero.) See under Cloud.
Cirsocele (n.) (Med.) The varicose dilatation of the spermatic vein.
Cirsoid (a.) (Med.) Varicose.
Cirsoid aneurism, A disease of an artery in which it becomes dilated and elongated, like a varicose vein.
Cirsotomy (n.) (Surg.) Any operation for the removal of varices by incision. -- Dunglison.
Cis- () A Latin preposition, sometimes used as a prefix in English words, and signifying on this side.
CIS, () Card Information Structure / Space (PCMCIA).
CIS, () Compuserve Information Systems (network).
CIS, () Command Information System (mil., USA).
CIS, () Contact Image Sensor
Cis, () Same as Kish.
Cisalpine (a.) On the hither side of the Alps with reference to Rome, that is, on the south side of the Alps; -- opposed to transalpine.
Cisalpine (a.) On the Italian or Roman side of the Alps; "ancient cisalpine Gaul included an area south and east of the Alps" [syn: cisalpine, ultramontane].
Cisatlantic (a.) On this side of the Atlantic Ocean; -- used of the eastern or the western side, according to the standpoint of the writer. -- Story.
Cisco (n.) (Zool.) The Lake herring ({Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.
Cisco (n.) Cold-water fish caught in Lake Superior and northward [syn: lake herring, cisco].
Cisco (n.) Important food fish of cold deep lakes of North America [syn: cisco, lake herring, Coregonus artedi].
Cisco, NE -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Nebraska
Population (2000): 68
Housing Units (2000): 45
Land area (2000): 0.575741 sq. miles (1.491161 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.575741 sq. miles (1.491161 sq. km)
FIPS code: 09112
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 41.498324 N, 102.622124 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cisco, NE
Cisco
Cisco, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 264
Housing Units (2000): 113
Land area (2000): 0.381133 sq. miles (0.987131 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.381133 sq. miles (0.987131 sq. km)
FIPS code: 14442
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 40.011799 N, 88.725764 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 61830
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cisco, IL
Cisco
Cisco, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 3851
Housing Units (2000): 1849
Land area (2000): 4.849369 sq. miles (12.559807 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008135 sq. miles (0.021070 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.857504 sq. miles (12.580877 sq. km)
FIPS code: 15004
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.384762 N, 98.981265 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 76437
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Cisco, TX
Cisco
Ciselure (n.) [F.] The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased. -- Weale.
Cisleithan (a.) On the Austrian side of the river Leitha; Austrian.
Cismontane (a.) On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.
Cismontane (a.) On this (the speaker's) side of the mountains; "a contest in Virginia between a cismontane and a tramontane people" [ant: tramontane, transmontane].
Cispadane (a.) On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side.
Cissoid (n.) (Geom.) A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving two celebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a plane angle, and to construct two geometrical means between two given straight lines.
Cist (n.) (Antiq.) A box or chest. Specifically:
Cist (n.) (Antiq.) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings.
Cist (n.) (Antiq.) A cinerary urn. See Illustration in Appendix.
Cist (n.) See Cyst.
Cisted (a.) Inclosed in a cyst. See Cysted.
Cistercian (n.) (Eccl.) 西妥會僧侶 A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years the Cistercians followed the rule of St. Benedict in all its rigor.
Cistercian (a.) 西妥會僧侶的 Of or pertaining to the Cistercians.
Cistercian (n.) Member of an order of monks noted for austerity and a vow of silence [syn: Trappist, Cistercian].
Cistern (n.) 貯水器；水槽；水池（屋頂上的） An artificial reservoir or tank for holding water, beer, or other liquids.
Cistern (n.) A natural reservoir; a hollow place containing water. "The wide cisterns of the lakes." -- Blackmore.
Cistern (n.) A sac or cavity containing fluid especially lymph or cerebrospinal fluid [syn: cisterna, cistern].
Cistern (n.) A tank that holds the water used to flush a toilet [syn: cistern, water tank].
Cistern (n.) An artificial reservoir for storing liquids; especially an underground tank for storing rainwater.
Cistern, () The rendering of a Hebrew word _bor_, which means a receptacle for water conveyed to it; distinguished from _beer_, which denotes a place where water rises on the spot (Jer. 2:13; Prov. 5:15; Isa. 36:16), a fountain. Cisterns are frequently mentioned in Scripture. The scarcity of springs in Palestine made it necessary to collect rain-water in reservoirs and cisterns (Num. 21:22). (See WELL.)
Empty cisterns were sometimes used as prisons (Jer. 38:6; Lam. 3:53; Ps. 40:2; 69:15). The "pit" into which Joseph was cast (Gen. 37:24) was a _beer_ or dry well. There are numerous remains of ancient cisterns in all parts of Palestine.
Cistic (a.) See Cystic.
Cit (n.) A citizen; an inhabitant of a city; a pert townsman; -- used contemptuously. "Insulted as a cit". -- Johnson
Which past endurance sting the tender cit. -- Emerson.
CIT, () Center for Information Technology (org., USA).
CIT, () Computer Integrated Telephony.
Citable (a.) Capable of being cited.
Citadel (n.) A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.
Syn. -- Stronghold. See Fortress.
Citadel (n.) A stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle [syn: bastion, citadel].
Cital (n.) Summons to appear, as before a judge. [R.] -- Johnson.
Cital (n.) Citation; quotation. [R.] -- Johnson.
Citation (n.) 引用；引證；列舉；【律】傳票；褒揚 An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
Citation (n.) The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words; also, the passage or words quoted; quotation.
This horse load of citations and fathers. -- Milton.
Citation (n.) Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
Citation (n.) (Law) A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
Citation (n.) An official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement [syn: citation, commendation].
Citation (n.) (Law) The act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.).
Citation (n.) A short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage; "the student's essay failed to list several important citations"; "the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book"; "the article includes mention of similar clinical cases" [syn: citation, cite, acknowledgment, credit, reference, mention, quotation].
Citation (n.) A passage or expression that is quoted or cited [syn: quotation, quote, citation].
Citation (n.) A summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding.
Citation (n.) Thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1948.
Citation, () practice. A writ issued out of a court of competent, jurisdiction, commanding a person therein named to appear and do something therein mentioned, or to show cause why he should not, on a day named. Proct. Pr. h.t. In the ecclesiastical law, the citation is the beginning and foundation of the whole cause; it is said to have six requisites, namely.: the insertion of the name of the judge; of the promovert; of the impugnant; of the cause of suit; of the place; and of the time of appearance; to which may be added the affixing the seal of the court, and the name of the register or his deputy. 1 Bro. Civ. Law, 453-4; Ayl. Parer. xliii. 175; Hall's Adm. Pr. 5; Merl. Rep. h.t. By, citation is also understood the act by which a person is summoned, or cited.
Citator (n.) One who cites. [R]
Citatory (a.) Having the power or form of a citation; as, letters citatory.
Cited (imp. & p. p.) of Cite.
Citing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cite.
Cite (v. t.) To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon.
The cited dead, Of all past ages, to the general doom Shall hasten. -- Milton.
Cited by finger of God. -- De Quincey.
Cite (v. t.) To urge; to enjoin. [R.] -- Shak.
Cite (v. t.) To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. -- Shak.
Cite (v. t.) To refer to or specify, as for support, proof, illustration, or confirmation.
The imperfections which you have cited. -- Shak.