circulate
verb (used without object)
to move in a circle or circuit; move or pass through a circuit back to the starting point.
circulative
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a word derived from
circulate.
Example Sentences
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In appearance Moore was "insinuating, up-flowing, circulative, curvicular, pop-eyed ... a man carved out of a turnip, looking out of astonished eyes."
From Time Magazine Archive
Instead of being foreclosed and immovable, it is, in fact, the only species of landed property that is essentially moving and circulative.
From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
Chilblains.—These occur in hands and feet where the circulative power is feeble, either from weakness or from tight pressure of boots or gloves.
From Papers on Health by Edward Bruce Kirk
Instead of being foreclosed and immovable, it is in fact the only species of landed property, that is essentially moving and circulative.
From Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
