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Ambient

Ăm'bi-ent, a.

adjective

a. [Lat. ambiens, p. pr. of ambire, to go around, from amb, q. v., and ire, to go.] Floating or encompassing on all sides; investing; surrounding.

A glorious pile . . . Whose towering summit ambient clouds concealed. Pope.

Ăm′bi·ent, n.

noun

n. Something that surrounds or invests. [Rare.] “Air being a perpetual ambient.” Reliquiæ Wottonianæ.