Definition: circumnavigate

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

circumnavigate
     v : travel around, either by plane or ship: "We compassed the
         earth" [syn: compass]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Circumnavigate \Cir`cum*nav"i*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   Circumnavigated; p. pr. & vb. n. Circumnavigating.] [L.
   circumnavigatus, p. p. of circumnavigare to sail round;
   circum + navigare to navigate.]
   To sail completely round.

         Having circumnavigated the whole earth.  --T. Fuller.