Meanings
- not comparablePromoting circulation; circulating.
1 more example
[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
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveof or relating to circulation
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Origin
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