circulative

adj

circulative

adj

UK /ˈsɜː.kjʊˌleɪ.tɪv/ · US /ˈsɝ.kjʊˌleɪ.tɪv/

Etymology From circulate + -ive.

1

Promoting circulation; circulating.

  • [T]he revenues of the church are in some sort the reversionary property of every family that may have a member educated for the church, or a daughter that may marry a clergyman. Instead of being foreclosed and immovable, it is, in fact, the only species of landed property that is essentially moving and circulative.1830, S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “Concerning the Right Idea of the Constitution. Paragraph the Fourth.”, in On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the Idea of Each: […], London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., →OCLC, page 80:
Derived terms
circulatively, noncirculative

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