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circumfluent|səˈkʌmfluːənt|
[ad. L. circumfluent-em, pres. pple. of circumfluĕre to flow round.]
Flowing round; ambient as a fluid.
1577Dee Relat. Spir. i. (1659) 29 A Centre: From the which the Circumfluent beams of his proper power do proceed. 1656Blount Glossogr., Circumfluent, that flows and runs about. 1725Pope Odyss. i. 230 Whose bounds the deep circumfluent waves embrace. 1849Murchison Siluria vi. (1867) 110 With two encircling mounds and two circumfluent valleys. 1864Ruskin in Reader IV. 678/1 In that matter of Political Economy also (though forced in like manner to write of that by unendurable circumfluent fallacy), I know my ground. 1868Gladstone Juv. Mundi xiii. (1870) 488 The..conception of a great circumfluent River. |