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AMBIENT (from Lat. ambi, on both side...

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 794 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMBIENT (from See also:Lat. ambi, on both sides, and ire, to go)  , surrounding; a word implying a moving rather than a stationary encircling . It is used mostly in the phrase the " See also:ambient See also:air," though See also:Bacon applied it as an See also:adjective to the See also:clergy, suggesting " ambition." In See also:astrology it means the See also:sky .

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