a. [f. L. circulāt- ppl. stem of circulāre: see -IVE.] Having the quality of circulating or producing circulation.
1635. Person, Varieties, II. 53. It is cold … as wanting … the circulative heate.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Distillation, A circulative or reiterated distilling with new substances.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., 111. The only species of landed property that is essentially moving and circulative.
1862. Ruskin, Munera Pulv. (1880), 20. The degree of fluency or circulative character.
