circumambulatorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

circumambulator (複数形 circumambulators)

1. Someone who walks around something.
   • 1786, Thomas Jefferson, Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson‎^[1]:

     Still he was determined to obtain the palm of being the first circumambulator of the earth.

   • 1882, Albert G. Mackey, The Symbolism of Freemasonry‎^[2]:

     TUAPHOLL. A term used by the Druids to designate an unhallowed circumambulation around the sacred cairn, or altar, the movement being against the sun, that is, from west to east by the north, the cairn being on the left hand of the circumambulator.