circulativeadj.
/ˈsəːkjʊleɪtɪv/ Having the quality of circulating or producing circulation.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [adjective] > moving in circle > causing movement in a circle
circulative1635
circumagent1649
1635 D. Person Varieties ii. 53 It is cold..as wanting..the circulative heate.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Distillation A circulative or reiterated distilling with new substances.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 111 The only species of landed property that is essentially moving and circulative.
1862 J. Ruskin Munera Pulveris (1880) 20 The degree of fluency or circulative character.
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