circumduction

CIDE DICTIONARY

circumduction, n. [L. circumductio.].

•  A leading about; circumlocution.  Hooker.  [1913 Webster]
•  An annulling; cancellation.  Ayliffe.  [1913 Webster]
•  The rotation of a limb round an imaginary axis, so as to describe a conical surface.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

circumduction

Obliteration

N obliteration, erasure, rasure, cancel, cancellation, circumduction, deletion, blot, tabula rasa, effacement, extinction, obliterated, out of print, printless, leaving no trace, intestate, unrecorded, unregistered, unwritten, Int, dele, out with it!, delenda est Carthago.