circumfluentadj.
/səˈkʌmfluːənt/ Flowing round; ambient as a fluid.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [adjective] > moving in circle
circularc1450
round1565
circumfluent1583
circling1599
circumferential1610
circumferent1620
circulating1632
compassing1638
circuline1647
circumambient1648
ambient1655
surrounding1657
gyrous1688
rounding1708
whirl-about1786
circumgyratory1835
gyrant1844
circuiting1886
roundwisea1930
1583 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 29 A Centre: From the which the Circumfluent beams of his proper power do proceed.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Circumfluent, that flows and runs about.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 230 Whose bounds the deep circumfluent waves embrace.
1859 R. I. Murchison Siluria (new ed.) vi. 121 The hill..has been left by natural causes, as if it were a huge, artificial, intrenched camp with two encircling mounds and two circumfluent valleys.
1864 J. Ruskin 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.
1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xiii. 488 The..conception of a great circumfluent River.
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