different between encircling vs circumpose

English

Adjective

encircling (not comparable)

1. enclosing, skirting

   She felt safe in her mother's encircling arms.

Verb

encircling

1. present participle of encircle

Noun

encircling (plural encirclings)

1. encirclement
   • 1995, Frank Trommler, Thematics Reconsidered: Essays in Honor of Horst S. Daemmrich

     If, however, a series of motifs conjoin in their encirclings of a theme - within and beyond the "subtext" - they enliven the interplay among themselves and with the theme to which they are attracted over the turbulent abyss of time and space.

English

Etymology

From Latin circump?no (“I put round”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s??k?m?p??z/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s??k?m?po?z/

Verb

circumpose (third-person singular simple present circumposes, present participle circumposing, simple past and past participle circumposed)

1. (obsolete) To put round; to place around; to place or arrange circularly.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue 2):

     The circumposed air is moved with the Earth.

2. (obsolete) To place within an encircling space; to pot (a plant).
   • 1693 John Evelyn, De la Quintinie's Compleat Gard'ner 2.152:

     To Circumpose Trees by planting them in Baskets, Pots, and Boxes, or Cases.

Derived terms

• circumposition

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “circumpose”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, Sixth Edition (1785)