Usually means: Walking ritualistically around a sacred object.
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  1. circumambulation: Merriam-Webster
  2. circumambulation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. circumambulation: Collins English Dictionary
  4. circumambulation: Wordnik
  5. circumambulation: Wiktionary
  6. circumambulation: Dictionary.com
  7. Circumambulation (album), Circumambulation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. circumambulation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. circumambulation: FreeDictionary.org
  10. circumambulation: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (circumambulation)

▸ noun:  The act of walking around something in a circle, especially for a ritual purpose.

Similar:
circumcursation, circumgyration, circination, circumversion, circumvolation, circumnavigation, circumposition, circumduction, circuition, circumbendibus, more...

Opposite:
retrograde, counterclockwise, anticlockwise

Adjectives:
ceremonial, first, third, sevenfold, second, final, triple, reverential, ritual, such, unnecessary

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Similar:
circumcursation, circumgyration, circination, circumversion, circumvolation, circumnavigation, circumposition, circumduction, circuition, circumbendibus, more...

Opposite:
retrograde, counterclockwise, anticlockwise

Adjectives:
ceremonial, first, third, sevenfold, second, final, triple, reverential, ritual, such, unnecessary



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