circumdolo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

circum-dŏlo, āre, v. a.,

I to hew off around , Plin. 16, 32, 57, § 133.—

II Trop.: qui, tamquam bonus animi faber, vitia nostra circumdolat, Ambros. in Luc. 3, 2.