51Թ

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circumfluent

[ ser-kuhm-floo-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. flowing around; encompassing.


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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ·ܳf·Գ noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of circumfluent1

First recorded in 1570–80, from Latin circumfluent- (stem of ܳڱŧԲ, present participle of circumfluere “to flow around”); circum-, fluent
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The sheer presence of a piano, and the percussive but circumfluent style embodied by Mr. Iyer, go a long way toward inoculating this music against that outcome.

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Here were gathered people who worked always in that circumfluent inspiration, that murmur of liberty, that whisper of humanity.

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Many of our muscular motions are excited by perpetual irritations, as those of the heart and arterial system by the circumfluent blood.

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But presently she spied, somewhere in the dark, a group of faces, looking white through the circumfluent blackness, the eyes of them fixed in amaze, if not in terror, upon herself.

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Magellan had shown that the world was round and poised in space, instead of flat and surrounded by a circumfluent ocean.

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