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noun

Circuit n.

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.

2.

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."

3.

That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown. "The golden circuit on my head."

4.

The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits. "A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees."

5.

A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher.

6.

(a)

(Law) A certain division of a state or country, established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for the administration of justice..

(b)

(Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant preacher labors.

7.

Circumlocution. (Obs.) "Thou hast used no circuit of words."

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 of action 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 circle or Galvanic circle or Voltaic circuit or Galvanic circuit, 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.

verb

Circuit v. t. To travel around. (Obs.) "Having circuited the air."

Circuit v. i. To move in a circle; to go round; to circulate. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Circuit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Circuit" Quotes from Famous Books

... army in two divisions, one turning to the right and the other to the left, began the circuit of the great marshy ravine. Dick noticed that the troops who had struggled so long in mud and water were eager. Here, west of the Alleghanies, the men in blue ...

— The Rock of Chickamauga • Joseph A. Altsheler

... towards the roof of the cavern, which it was just able to reach. It then began to move its head backwards and forwards, with a slow, oscillating motion, as if looking for something At the same moment, the witch began to walk round and round the cavern, coming nearer to the centre every circuit; while the head of the snake described the same path over the roof that she did over the floor. for she held it up still. And still it kept slowly oscillating. Round and round the cavern they went thus, ever lessening the circuit, till, at last, ...

— Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers • Various

... lights had been brought in. He did not receive Pyotr Stepanovitch either, though the latter ran round to Varvara Petrovna's two or three times a day so long as he remained in the town. And now, at last, returning on the Monday morning after his three days' absence, Pyotr Stepanovitch made a circuit of the town, and, after dining at Yulia Mihailovna's, came at last in the evening to Varvara Petrovna, who was impatiently expecting him. The interdict had been removed, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch was "at home." Varvara Petrovna herself led the visitor to the door of the ...

— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... some directions as to the road I was to travel, telling me I should have to make a circuit so as not to pass through Calcutta, which lay directly in the way to Fulta. The whole distance he estimated as a little more than two hundred miles, and he advised me to ride only at night, and ...

— Athelstane Ford • Allen Upward

... Court." Each of the judges of the Supreme Court annually visits a certain portion of the Republic, in order to try the most important causes upon the spot; the court presided over by this magistrate is styled a "Circuit Court." Lastly, all the most serious cases of litigation are brought before the Supreme Court, which holds a solemn session once a year, at which all the judges of the Circuit Courts must attend. The jury was introduced into the Federal Courts in the same manner, and in the ...

— Democracy In America, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alexis de Tocqueville

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