circumfluent
Americanadjective
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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
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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.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2011
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.
From Weighed and Wanting by George MacDonald
"Shall we not crack a bottle together on this side of the circumfluent Oceanus?"
From The Crown of Life by George Gissing
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 Erasmus Darwin
Here were gathered people who worked always in that circumfluent inspiration, that murmur of liberty, that whisper of humanity.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
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