different between circumambient vs jactation

English

Etymology

From Latin circum (“around”) + ambi?, from amb- (“both side”) + e? (“go”), literally "go on both sides of".

Adjective

circumambient (comparative more circumambient, superlative most circumambient)

1. Including all aspects of; encompassing.
2. Surrounding.
   • 1915, W. S. Maugham, "Of Human Bondage":

     Philip seemed really to be born again. He breathed the circumambient air as though he had never breathed it before, and he took a child's pleasure in all the facts of the world.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 517:

     The growling circumambient toils of London around them fadedbefore the calm of these innocent precincts.

Translations

Adverb

circumambient (comparative more circumambient, superlative most circumambient)

1. in a circumambient manner

Related terms

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

jactation (plural jactations)

1. A tossing or shaking of the body; physical agitation, especially while asleep or confined to bed by illness; jactitation.
2. The action of throwing.
   • 1662: Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)

     The projicient hath the stone in his hand, and with force and violence throws his arm, with which jactation the stone doth not move so much as the circumambient Air.

3. Boasting; bragging; showing off.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “jactation”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

References

• jactation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.