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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

... in one coil when the circuit in a concentric coil is completed or broken. Notices similar effects when a wire bearing a current approaches another wire or recedes from it. Rotates a galvanometer needle by an electric pulse. Induces currents in coils when the magnetism is varied in their iron or steel ...

— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various

... obtained, except a few mollusca, and still less exact information regarding the customs, religion, or language of its diversified population, steered for Amboyna, which was reached without any accident on the 24th September. The governor, M. Merkus, happened to be on circuit; but his absence was no obstacle to the supply of all the stores needed by the commander. The reception given by the authorities and the society of the place was of a very cordial kind, and everything was done to compensate the French explorers for the hardships ...

— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne

... as three months' imprisonment—penalties, moreover, which were simultaneously inflicted upon the Jews who, as in the case of Odessa, had resorted to self-defence. When the terrible Kiev pogrom was tried in the local Military Circuit Court, the public prosecutor Strelnikov, a well-known reactionary who subsequently met his fate at the hands of the revolutionaries, delivered himself on May 18 of a speech which was rather an indictment against the Jews than against the rioters. He ...

— History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Volume II • S.M. Dubnow

... confession. Those already in prison made confessions that implicated others, until the busy justices of the peace had shut up sixteen women and four men to be tried at the assizes. Sir Edward Bromley and Sir James Altham, who were then on the northern circuit, reached Lancaster on the sixteenth of August. In the meantime, "Old Demdike," after a confession of most awful crimes, had died in prison. All the others were put on trial. Thomas Potts compiled a very careful abstract ...

— A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 • Wallace Notestein

... he persuaded himself that matters were not as bad as they first appeared. Inasmuch as the fugitives had not returned over their own trail, the Indians, in case they took it in the morning, must make the same circuit, and thus be forced to go just as far as if the flight had been ...

— The Daughter of the Chieftain - The Story of an Indian Girl • Edward S. Ellis

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