circumfluent

American  

[ser-kuhm-floo-uhnt] / sərˈkʌm flu ənt /

adjective

1. flowing around; encompassing.

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Other Word Forms

• circumfluence noun

Etymology

Origin of circumfluent

First recorded in 1570–80, from Latin circumfluent- (stem of circumfluēns, present participle of circumfluere “to flow around”); circum-, fluent

Example Sentences

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

The lacrymal gland drinks up a certain fluid from the circumfluent blood, and pours it on the ball of the eye, on the upper part of the external corner of the eyelids.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Magellan had shown that the world was round and poised in space, instead of flat and surrounded by a circumfluent ocean.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

I. The salival glands drink up a certain fluid from the circumfluent blood, and pour it into the mouth.

From Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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 MacKenzie, Compton