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CIRCUIT, n.

1. The act of moving or passing round; as the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun, or of the moon round the earth.


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CIRCUIT, n.

1. The act of moving or passing round; as the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun, or of the moon round the earth.

CIR'CUIT, n. [sur'kit; Fr. circuit; L. circuitus; of circa, circum, and eo, to go.]

  1. The act of moving or passing round; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun, or of the moon round the earth. – Watts.
  2. The space inclosed in a circle, or within certain limits. – Milton.
  3. Any space or extent measured by traveling round. – Addison.
  4. That which encircles; a ring; a diadem. – Shak.
  5. In England, the journey of judges through several counties or boroughs, for the purpose of holding courts. In the United States, the journey of judges through certain states or counties for the same purpose.
  6. The counties or states in which the same judge or judges hold courts and administer justice. It is common to designate a certain number of counties to form a circuit, and to assign one or more judges to each circuit. The courts in the circuits are called circuit courts. In the government of the United States, a certain number of states form a circuit.
  7. A long deduction of reason. – Donne.
  8. In law, a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to recover the thing sued for. – Cowel. Encyc. Johnson. Bailey gives this as the definition of Circuity.

CIR'CUIT, v.i.

To move in a circle; to go round. – Philips.


CIR'CUIT, v.t.

To move or go round. – Warton.


Cir"cuit
  1. The act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun.

    Watts.
  2. To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate.

    [Obs.] J. Philips.
  3. To travel around.

    [Obs.] "Having circuited the air." T. Warton.
  4. The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the measure of a line round an area.

    The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles.
    J. Stow.

  5. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.

    The golden circuit on my head.
    Shak.

  6. The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.

    A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees.
    Milton.

  7. A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.
  8. A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice.

    Bouvier. (b) (Methodist Church)
  9. Circumlocution.

    [Obs.] "Thou hast used no circuit of words." Huloet.

    Circuit court (Law), a court which sits successively in different places in its circuit (see Circuit, 6). In the United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a special circuit judge, together with the judge of the district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal cognizance. Some of the individual States also have circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction of the same class, in matters of State cognizance. -- Circuit or Circuity of action (Law), a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to attain the object in view. -- To make a circuit, to go around; to go a roundabout way. -- Voltaic or Galvanic circuit or circle, a continous electrical communication between the two poles of a battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of electricity is established.

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Circuit

CIRCUIT, noun

1. The act of moving or passing round; as the periodical circuit of the earth round the sun, or of the moon round the earth.

2. The space inclosed in a circle, or within certain limits.

3. Any space or extent measured by traveling round.

4. That which encircles; a ring; a diadem.

5. In England, the journey of judges through several counties or boroughs, for the purpose of holding courts. In the United States, the journey of judges through certain states or counties for the same purpose.

6. The counties or states in which the same judge or judges hold courts and administer justice. It is common to designate a certain number of counties to form a circuit and to assign one or more judges to each circuit The courts in the circuits are called circuit courts. In the government of the United States, a certain number of states form a circuit

7. A long deduction of reason.

8. In law, a longer course of proceedings than is necessary to recover the thing sued for.

Bailey gives this as the definition of circuity.

CIRCUIT, verb intransitive To move in a circle; to go round.

CIRCUIT, verb transitive To move or go round.

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