2. The circumference of, or distance round, any space; the
measure of a line round an area.
The circuit or compass of Ireland is 1,800 miles.
--J. Stow.
3. That which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
The golden circuit on my head. --Shak.
4. The space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.
A circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees.
--Milton.
5. A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in
the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a
preacher.
6.
(a) (Law) A certain division of a state or country,
established by law for a judge or judges to visit, for
the administration of justice. --Bouvier.
(b) (Methodist Church) A district in which an itinerant
preacher labors.
7. Circumlocution. [Obs.] ``Thou hast used no circuit of
words.'' --Huloet.
{Circuit court} (Law), a court which sits successively in
different places in its circuit (see {Circuit}, 6). In the
United States, the federal circuit courts are commonly
presided over by a judge of the supreme court, or a
special circuit judge, together with the judge of the
district court. They have jurisdiction within statutory
limits, both in law and equity, in matters of federal
cognizance. Some of the individual States also have
circuit courts, which have general statutory jurisdiction
of the same class, in matters of State cognizance.
{Circuit or Circuity} {of action} (Law), a longer course of
proceedings than is necessary to attain the object in
view.
{To make a circuit}, to go around; to go a roundabout way.
{Voltaic or Galvanic} {circuit or circle}, a continous
electrical communication between the two poles of a
battery; an arrangement of voltaic elements or couples
with proper conductors, by which a continuous current of
electricity is established.