Amphidromical

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
     [1913 Webster]