The act of acting around something, or indirect action; an extremely rare or obsolete term.
From Latin 'circum' (around) + 'actio' (action). This Latinate formation was occasionally used in philosophical or legal contexts but never became standard English.
This is essentially a dead word—so rare that most dictionaries don't include it. It's the kind of word that might appear once in a 17th-century philosophical treatise and then vanish from history, leaving lexicographers puzzled about whether it was ever really 'a word' or just a writer experimenting.
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