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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 794 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AMBIENT (from
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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 "
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ambient
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air," though
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Bacon applied it as an
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adjective to the
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clergy, suggesting " ambition." In
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astrology it means the
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sky .

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