circulative en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈsɜː.kjʊˌleɪ.tɪv/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈsɝ.kjʊˌleɪ.tɪv/ (General-American)
Etymology
From circulate + -ive.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Promoting circulation; circulating.
[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: