circumfluent

American  

[ser-kuhm-floo-uhnt] / sərˈkʌm flu ənt /

adjective

1. flowing around; encompassing.

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Other Word Forms

• circumfluence noun

Etymology

Origin of circumfluent

First recorded in 1570–80, from Latin circumfluent- (stem of circumfluēns, present participle of circumfluere “to flow around”); see circum-, fluent

Example Sentences

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.

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2011

"Shall we not crack a bottle together on this side of the circumfluent Oceanus?"

From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George

I. The salival glands drink up a certain fluid from the circumfluent blood, and pour it into the mouth.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

The lacrymal gland drinks up a certain fluid from the circumfluent blood, and pours it on the ball of the eye, on the upper part of the external corner of the eyelids.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus