circulatorn.
/ˈsəːkjʊleɪtə/ 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 English.]† 2. One who travels round (the world); one who travels round, or about a district, who makes his ‘rounds’, e.g. a ‘commercial traveller’. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > a charlatan, fraudster > [noun] > performing spectators
mountebank1566
circulator1608
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 280 Circulators, Iuglers or Quacksaluers, did cast certaine mazes or small cakes to them.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells ix. 597–8 Witches, Magitions, Circulators, Juglers, etc.
1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 200 A kind of Gipsy-Christians, or a race of Circulators, Tumblers, and Taylers in the Church.
1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1064/2 The epithet ‘Circulator’, in its Latin invidious signification, was applied to him [Harvey].
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society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > round the world
circulator1654
encompasser1666
society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [noun] > one who travels about a place
perambulator1611
circulator1744
scourer1878
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 212 The..intellectual World meeting with daily and fresh Circulatours, and Discoverers, as well as this materiall World, hath with its Drakes, and Magellans.
1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 241 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.
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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > [noun] > person who
publisherc1453
bruiter1535
dissipater1537
spreader1542
utterer1549
setter-outc1553
disperser1580
seed carrier1602
divulger1606
propagator1610
promulgera1635
dispreader1636
divulgater1637
promulgater1637
diffuser1645
promulgator1648
disseminator1667
circulator1792
vulgarizer1899
forthteller1920
vulgarisateur1933
society > communication > information > rumour > [noun] > tale-bearer
rounderOE
blabc1374
tale-teller1377
clatterer1388
tittlerc1400
talebearer1478
whisterer1519
whisperer1547
telltale1548
tattler1549
clatterfart1552
tale-carrier1552
babbler?1555
gossip1566
gossiper1568
carry-tale1577
mumble-news1598
twitter1598
buzzer1604
blob-talea1670
gadabout1757
tell-pie1771
circulator1792
clype1825
windjammer1880
tattle-tale1889
panta1908
clatfarta1930
1792 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 31 The reports which they circulate..grow more rife than ever. I met some of the circulators.
1816 Ld. Byron Let. 29 Feb. (1976) V. 35 I speak of circulators.
1859 J. S. Mill On Liberty v. 198 A central depository, and active circulator and diffuser, of the experience resulting from many trials.
1870 Daily News 10 Dec. The authors and circulators of the report.
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4. Mathematics. A circulating decimal.
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