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Definition: CIRCUMFLECT

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To bend around.[Websters]
2. To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.[Websters]
3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: circumflecting, circumflected, circumflects, circumflecter, circumflecters, circumflectingly and circumflectedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Circumflect" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Note: Circumflect \Cir"cum*flect\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Circumflected; present participle verb or noun Circumflecting.]. (references)

Definition: CIRCUMFLECT

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To bend around.[Websters]
2. To mark with the circumflex accent, as a vowel.[Websters]
3. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: circumflecting, circumflected, circumflects, circumflecter, circumflecters, circumflectingly and circumflectedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "CIRCUMFLECT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Note: Circumflect \Cir"cum*flect\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Circumflected; present participle verb or noun Circumflecting.]. (references)