[ad. L. circumfluent-em, pres. pple. of circumfluĕre to flow round.] Flowing round; ambient as a fluid.
1577. Dee, Relat. Spir., I. (1659), 29. A Centre: From the which the Circumfluent beams of his proper power do proceed.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Circumfluent, that flows and runs about.
1725. Pope, Odyss., I. 230. Whose bounds the deep circumfluent waves embrace.
1849. Murchison, Siluria, vi. (1867), 110. With two encircling mounds and two circumfluent valleys.
1864. Ruskin, in Reader, IV. 678/1. In that matter of Political Economy also (though forced in like manner to write of that by unendurable circumfluent fallacy), I know my ground.
1868. Gladstone, Juv. Mundi, xiii. (1870), 488. The noble conception of a great circumfluent River.
