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v. - Surround with or as if with a rampart or other fortification.

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  • Taste is most acute in or near the circumvallate papillæ.
  • And in the rest of the wall circumvallate of these bearing out rownde
  • In many of the fungiform and most of the circumvallate papillæ are peculiar structures called taste buds or taste goblets.
  • First he made it impossible for the Athenians to circumvallate the city; then he captured the naval stores of the enemy, forcing them to encamp in unhealthy ground.
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