Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Circuit, -et, v. [L. circuit-, ppl. stem of circuīre Circue v.] tr. To go round; to surround. 1549 Compl. 48/21.
Al the thyng that circuitis this last tent hauyn … is immobil and mouis nocht Ib. 51/16.
The sune circuitis and gais about the eird euyrie xxiiij houris c1590 Fowler 323/4.
Thou … hathe circueted soyles with a clouted boote 1597 Reg. Great S. 186/1.
Circuiting about the mure fra the marche burne 1601 Ib. 392/2.
Thairfra circuiting about the saidis landis