circulus
Americannoun
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circuli
plural
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Etymology
Origin of circulus
< Latin: circle
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The problem is that your argument is, as the Romans would say, circulus in probando.
From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2015
The entire activity of justice is a circulus vitiosus, a faulty short conclusion.
From The Future Belongs to the People by Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht
The "circulus solis" of course signifies the corona.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
This reciprocal dependence of world policies and continental policies constitutes, if you please, a circulus vitiosus, the vicious circle of Germany's foreign policy.
From American World Policies by Walter E. Weyl
With a hearty laugh at this beautiful circulus in definiendo he threw down his pencil, and the imperfect and illogical office definition was accepted.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Arthur E. Bostwick
De quadratura circuli demonstratio ex Campano, that appeared without date about 1507.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by David Eugene Smith
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