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adj. - Of or relating to movement or passage in a curving or bending course typically with return to a starting point

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Usage examples (3)
  • -- These occur in hands and feet where the circulative power is feeble, either from weakness or from tight pressure of boots or gloves.
  • Helped by the police, they were pouring in from barrio and hacienda; the attendance was going up by leaps and bounds, till at last a circulative report showed that...
  • For if not, and the ideas of a certain mode of distribution or operation in the riches, and of a certain degree of freedom in the people, enter into our idea of riches as...
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