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  • English Word Circuitous Definition Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accomplishing an end.
  • English Word Circuity Definition A going round in a circle; a course not direct; a roundabout way of proceeding.
  • English Word Circulable Definition That may be circulated.
  • English Word Circular Definition In the form of, or bounded by, a circle; round.
  • English Word Circular Definition repeating itself; ending in itself; reverting to the point of beginning; hence, illogical; inconclusive; as, circular reasoning.
  • English Word Circular Definition Adhering to a fixed circle of legends; cyclic; hence, mean; inferior. See Cyclic poets, under Cyclic.
  • English Word Circular Definition Addressed to a circle, or to a number of persons having a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter.
  • English Word Circular Definition Perfect; complete.
  • English Word Circular Definition A circular letter, or paper, usually printed, copies of which are addressed or given to various persons; as, a business circular.
  • English Word Circular Definition A sleeveless cloak, cut in circular form.
  • English Word Circularity Definition The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
  • English Word Circularly Definition In a circular manner.
  • English Word Circulary Definition Circular; illogical.
  • English Word Circulate Definition To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
  • English Word Circulate Definition To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.
  • English Word Circulate Definition To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.
  • English Word Circulating Definition of Circulate
  • English Word Circulation Definition The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.
  • English Word Circulation Definition The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.
  • English Word Circulation Definition Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.
  • English Word Circulation Definition The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; as, the circulation of a newspaper.
  • English Word Circulation Definition The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.
  • English Word Circulative Definition Promoting circulation; circulating.
  • English Word Circulator Definition One who, or that which, circulates.
  • English Word Circulatorious Definition Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.
  • English Word Circulatory Definition Circular; as, a circulatory letter.
  • English Word Circulatory Definition Circulating, or going round.
  • English Word Circulatory Definition Subserving the purposes of circulation; as, circulatory organs; of or pertaining to the organs of circulation; as, circulatory diseases.
  • English Word Circulatory Definition A chemical vessel consisting of two portions unequally exposed to the heat of the fire, and with connecting pipes or passages, through which the fluid rises from the overheated portion, and descends from the relatively colder, maintaining a circulation.
  • English Word Circulet Definition A circlet.