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circulator|ˈsɜːkjʊleɪtə(r)|
[a. L. circulātor a peddler, quack, n. of agent f. circulā-ri; see circulate and -or. (Cf. F. circulateur.)]
He who or that which circulates: in various senses.
†1. A mountebank who gathers a ring or crowd of spectators about him; a quack, charlatan.[The old explanation of the name took circulāri as ‘to roam’ or ‘stroll about as a vagrant’, and has sometimes affected the use of the word in Eng.] 1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 793 Circulators, Juglers or Quacksalvers, did cast certain mazes or small cakes to them. 1635Heywood Hierarch. ix. 597–8 Witches, Magitions, Circulators, Juglers, etc. 1659Gauden Tears Ch. 200 (D.) A kind of Gipsy-Christians, or a race of Circulators, Tumblers, and Taylers in the Church. 1849–52Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 1064/2 The epithet ‘Circulator’, in its Latin invidious signification, was applied to him [Harvey].
†2. One who travels round (the world); one who travels round, or about a district, who makes his ‘rounds’, e.g. a ‘commercial traveller’. Obs.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 212 The..intellectual World meeting with daily and fresh Circulatours, and Discoverers, as well as this materiall World, hath with its Drakes, and Magellans. a1734North Lives (1826) III. 294 Two or three persons, who, to make good their monopoly, send abroad their circulators, and in that manner get into their hands all that is valuable.
3. One who circulates or puts about coin, news, reports, information, etc.; esp. in bad sense, a talebearer, scandal-monger.
1792Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 31 The reports which they circulate..grow more rife than ever. I met some of the circulators. 1816Byron Let. to Moore 29 Feb., I speak of circulators. 1859Mill Liberty v. (1865) 65/2 A central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials. 1870Daily News 10 Dec., The authors and circulators of the report.
4. Math. A circulating decimal. |