circumterrestrial

[ sur-kuhm-tuh-res-tree-uhl ]

adjective

1. surrounding or revolving about the earth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of circumterrestrial¹

First recorded in 1820–30; circum- + terrestrial

Example Sentences

For it is perhaps requisite not to disbelieve in wise men, who say that the greater part of circumterrestrial d�mons are conglutinated to generation, and are delighted with blood, with the odour and vapour of flesh, with melodies and with other things of the like kind**; to which being bound, they are unable to effect any thing superior to the sanction of the body, and the prediction of future events to men and cities.

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