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”); 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

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

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

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

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

From The Crown of Life by Gissing, George

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