bypass or circumferential roads to enable through traffic to keep out of cities—New International Year Book
parkways and circumferential drives—American Builder
these efforts … are nevertheless peripheral, circumferential, apart from the curricular body of knowledge which is central to any educational institution—K. I. Brown
circumferentially
-ch(ə)lē,
-li
adverb
Word History
Etymology
Latin circumferentia circumference + English -al
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