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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To pass from place to place, from person to person, or from hand to hand; to be diffused; <as>as, money <ex>circulates</ex>; a story <ex>circulates.</ex></as></def>

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<cs><col>Circulating decimal</col>. <cd>See <er>Decimal</er>.</cd> -- <col>Circulating library</col>, <cd>a library whose books are loaned to the public, usually at certain fixed rates.</cd> -- <col>Circulating medium</col>. <cd>See <er>Medium</er>.</cd></cs>

<h1>Circulate</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir"cu*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause to pass from place to place, or from person to person; to spread; <as>as, to <ex>circulate</ex> a report; to <ex>circulate</ex> bills of credit.</as></def>

<cs><col>Circulating pump</col>. <cd>See under <er>Pump</er>.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- To spread; diffuse; propagate; disseminate.</syn>

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<hw>Cir`cu*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circulatio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>circulation</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of moving in a circle, or in a course which brings the moving body to the place where its motion began.</def>

<blockquote>This continual <b>circulation</b> of human things. <i>Swift.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act of passing from place to place or person to person; free diffusion; transmission.</def>

<blockquote>The true doctrines of astronomy appear to have had some popular <b>circulation</b>. <i>Whewell.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Currency; circulating coin; notes, bills, etc., current for coin.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The extent to which anything circulates or is circulated; the measure of diffusion; <as>as, the <ex>circulation</ex> of a newspaper</as>.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld> <def>The movement of the blood in the blood-vascular system, by which it is brought into close relations with almost every living elementary constituent. Also, the movement of the sap in the vessels and tissues of plants.</def>

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<hw>Cir"cu*la*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Promoting circulation; circulating.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<h1>Circulator</h1> <Xpage=258>

<hw>Cir"cu*la`tor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. L. <ets>circulator</ets> a peddler.]</ety> <def>One who, or that which, circulates.</def>

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<hw>Cir`cu*la*to"ri*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Travelling from house to house or from town to town; itinerant.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Circulatorious</i> jugglers."

<i>Barrow.</i>

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<hw>Cir"cu*la*to*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>circulatorius</ets> pert. to a mountebank: cf. F. <ets>circulatoire</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Circular; <as>as, a <ex>circulatory</ex> letter</as>.</def>

<i>Johnson.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Circulating, or going round.</def>