circumjacent

From Latin circa (“around”) + jacēre (“to lie down”).

circumjacent (not comparable)

1. (archaic, literary) Lying or located in the area around something.

   Synonyms: surrounding, circumambient

   • 1642, James Howell, Instructions for Forraine Travell London: Humphrey Mosley, Section 3, p. 32,

     […] some have used to get on the top of the highest Steeple, where one may view with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the site of the City, with the advenues and approaches about it;

   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, chapter 64, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 289:

     […] he had established his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes.

   • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 36:

     […] while the table was […] the lap of luxury […] the circumjacent region of the sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character:

   • 1904 November 10, Henry James, chapter 8, in The Golden Bowl, volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 148:

     He had taken no trouble to indicate it to his fellow citizens, purveyors and consumers, in his own and the circumjacent commonwealths, of comic matter in large lettering, diurnally “set up,” printed, published, folded and delivered, at the expense of his presumptuous emulation of the snail.

• adjacent
• interjacent
• jacent
• subjacent
• superjacent
• suprajacent