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Flowing round or surrounding in the manner of a fluid.

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Usage examples (26)
  • For what princely traveller sojourning here incognito, could they be intended, those glaucous plums, luminous and spherical as was at that moment the circumfluent sea,...
  • The salival glands drink up a certain fluid from the circumfluent blood, and pour it into the mouth.
  • Magellan had shown that the world was round and poised in space, instead of flat and surrounded by a circumfluent ocean.
  • Many of our muscular motions are excited by perpetual irritations, as those of the heart and arterial system by the circumfluent blood.
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