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circumplectere

circumplectere [CL] , to encircle, involve. b (p. ppl.) complex. brachium ‥ versum in tumorem adeo ut vix duabus manibus ~i posset Bede HE V 3; nocuis humoribus ille [sc. stomachus] / circumplexus erit, quos mox a corpore toto / attrahet D. Bec. 2780; 1295 baculus ‥ continens ‥ vineam ~entem leonem de cupro deaurato Vis. S. Paul. 316; 1409 J. Badby ‥ stipiti ligatus ac quodam vase concavo ~us [sic] ‥ incineratus extitit Conc. III 328a.  b que [dissensio] ‥ longum nimis et circumplexum traxit post se funem malorum H. Bos. Thom. III 21.

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