[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

circuit \cir"cuit\, n. f. circuit, fr. l. circuitus, fr.
   circuire or circumire to go around; circum around + ire to
   go.
   1. the act of moving or revolving around, or as in a circle
      or orbit; a revolution; as, the periodical circuit of the
      earth round the sun. --watts.
      1913 webster

   2. the circumference of, or distance round, any space; the
      measure of a line round an area.
      1913 webster

            the circuit or compass of ireland is 1,800 miles.
                                                  --j. stow.
      1913 webster

   3. that which encircles anything, as a ring or crown.
      1913 webster

            the golden circuit on my head.        --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. the space inclosed within a circle, or within limits.
      1913 webster

            a circuit wide inclosed with goodliest trees.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   5. a regular or appointed journeying from place to place in
      the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a
      preacher.
      1913 webster

   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.
          1913 webster

   7. circumlocution. obs. "thou hast used no circuit of
      words." --huloet.
      1913 webster

   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 of action 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 circle or galvanic circle or voltaic circuit or
   galvanic circuit, 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.
      1913 webster
see also:
circuit court circuit circuit of action circuity of action to make a circuit voltaic circle 
galvanic circle voltaic circuit galvanic circuit 

[2] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

circuit court. the name of a court of the united states, which has both 
civil and criminal jurisdiction. in several of the states there are courts 
which bear this name. vide courts of the united states. 

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