Definition of "circumjacent"

[S]ome have used to get on the top of the higheſt Steeple, where one may view with advantage, all the Countrey circumjacent, and the ſite of the City, with the advenues and approaches about it; and ſo take a Landskip of it.

1642, James Howell, “Section III”, in Instructions for Forreine Travell. […], London: […] T. B. for Humprey Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […]; republished as Edward Arber, editor, Instructions for Forreine Travell. […] (English Reprints; 16), London: , page 21

[H]e had establiſhed his fame and dominion over the circumjacent tribes.

1788, Edward Gibbon, chapter LXIV, in The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], page 289

[W]hile the table was […] the lap of luxury […] the circumjacent region of the sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character: […]

1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter III, in Great Expectations […], volume II, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published October 1861, page 36

He had taken no trouble to indicate it to his fellow citizens, purveyors and consumers, in his own and the circumjacent commonwealths, of comic matter in large lettering, diurnally “set up,” printed, published, folded and delivered, at the expense of his presumptuous emulation of the snail.

1904 November 10, Henry James, chapter VIII, in The Golden Bowl, volume I, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, book first (The Prince), part second, page 148