Cir`cum*vo*lu"tion (?), n. [See Circumvolve.]
1.
The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
2.
A thing rolled round another.
Arbuthnot.
3.
A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions.
Beaconsfield.
© Webster 1913.