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circularly, adv.|ˈsɜːkjʊləlɪ|
[f. circular a. + -ly.]
In a circular manner, in a circle.
1. In the form of a circle.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. i. iii. 4 Diuide the brayne panne with a sawe circularely. 1666Pepys Diary 22 July, For fruit, the best way is to have walls built circularly. 1834M. Somerville Connec. Phys. Sc. xvi. (1849) 145 Propagated circularly all round the centre of disturbance.
2. In a circular orbit or course.
1561Eden Arte Nauig. i. xx. 22 The Planet..is moued circularly. 1666Dryden Ann. Mirab. ii, Trade, which like blood should circularly flow. 1872Proctor Ess. Astron. viii. 108 A body moving circularly round the sun.
3. By circular reasoning, in a logical circle.
1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 35 That is to prove the same by the same, or else to argue circularly. 1861Dickens Gt. Expect. I. vii. 103 Joe..completely stopped me by arguing circularly, and answering with a fixed look ‘Her’.
†4. Completely, perfectly. Obs.
1616Chapman Homer's Hymns Apollo 35 And those gifts onely let thy deified mind Be circularlie pleas'd with. 1618― Hesiod Ded. 141 These most wise, learned and circularly-spoken Grecians.
†5. In rotation, among a circle of people. Obs.
1648T. Hill Strength of Saints A 3 a, That they (though but circularly, by 3 or 4 in a morning) may have leave to come to the Morning Sermon in the Abbey. 1662Fuller Worthies ii. 30 He bestowed also a vast summe of money on several Corporations to be imployed circularly for the benefit of the poor Freemen therein. |