circumflant

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English

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Etymology

From Latin circumflans, present participle of circumflare.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɜː(ɹ)kəmflənt/

Adjective

circumflant (comparative more circumflant, superlative most circumflant)

  1. (obsolete) blowing around
    • August 29 1657, Jeremy Taylor, letter to John Evelyn
      the reason why the flame goes out when the matter is exhausted , is because that little particle of fire is soon overcome by the circumflant air and scattered , when it wants matter to keep it in unison and closeness

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “circumflant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Verb

circumflant

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of circumflō
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