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Middle English: from Old French cerchier (verb), from late Latin circare ‘go round’, from Latin circus ‘circle’.
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searching (adj.)
early 15c., "complete" (implied in searchingly), present-participle adjective from search (v.). The sense of "engaged in seeking," hence also "keen, penetrating" (of gazes, etc.) is by 1570s.
