circumduct (English, verb)
expansion: circumduct (third-person singular simple present circumducts, present participle circumducting, simple past and past participle circumducted)
Senses:
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: To move an extremity about an axis so that the distal end delineates a circle whilst the proximal end stays fixed.
glosses: To lead about or astray.
tags: obsolete
topics: law
glosses: To contravene; to nullify.
tags: obsolete
topics: law
glosses: Alternative form of circumduce (“to close a case to further proof”).
tags: alt-of
alternative
Forms:
form: circumducts
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: circumducting
tags: participle
present
form: circumducted
tags: participle
past
form: circumducted
tags: past