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Amphidromical
Am`phi*drom"ic*al\, a. [Gr. 'amfi`dromos running about or around.] Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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