a. [f. L. circumflu-us flowing around, (more commonly) flowed around, surrounded by water + -OUS.]
1. Flowing around, surrounding as a fluid; also transf.; = CIRCUMFLUENT.
1638. Wilkins, New World, iv. (1707), 33. A kind of circumfluous Reflection.
1667. Milton, P. L., VII. 270. Hee the World Built on circumfluous Waters.
1725. Pope, Odyss., IV. 753. Girt with circumfluous tides.
1846. Grote, Greece, I. xiii. 208. On the farther side of the circumfluous ocean.
2. Flowed round, surrounded by water.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., I. 608. This circumfluous isle.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Circumfluous,… that is flowed about.
1845. J. H. Newman, Ess. Developm., 255. Her offspring … wherewith the populous swarms ever throng the circumfluous hive.
