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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--circumambulate This week's theme: unusual words used in famous quotations. circumambulate (sur-kuhm-AM-byuh-layt) verb tr., intr. To walk around, especially ritually. [From Latin circum- (around) + ambulate (to walk about), from ambulare (to walk).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. "And even the Abstract Entities Circumambulate her charm." T.S. Eliot; Whispers of Immortality; 1919; quoted in The Yale Book of Quotations. X-Bonus Along this tree / From root to crown / Ideas flow up / And vetoes down. -A senior executive, quoted by Peter Drucker

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