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circumfluous
[ ser-kuhm-floo-uhs ]
circumfluous
/ səˈkʌmflʊəs /
adjective
- Alsocircumfluent flowing all around
- surrounded by or as if by water
Derived Forms
- cirˈcumfluence, noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of circumfluous1
Word History and Origins
Origin of circumfluous1
Example Sentences
So He the world Built on circumfluous waters calm, in wide Crystalline ocean.”
Take these most excellent things,—the well-made cake Of fruitful barley, in fair Lesbos grown, On the circumfluous hill of Eresus; Whiter than driven snow, if it be true That these are loaves such as the gods do eat, Which Mercury their steward buys for them.
At length Coleus of Samos passed through the frowning gateway of Hercules into the circumfluous sea, the Atlantic Ocean.
On its rim is the circumfluous ocean, the source of the rivers, which all flow to the Mediterranean, appropriately in after ages so called, since it is in the midst, in the centre of the expanse of the land.
How was it possible that the notion of a flat earth, bounded by the horizon and bordered by the circumfluous ocean, could maintain itself when colonies were being founded in Gaul, and the Phœnicians were bringing tin from beyond the Pillars of Hercules?
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