circulize

English

Etymology

From Latin circulus +‎ -ize.

Verb

circulize (third-person singular simple present circulizes, present participle circulizing, simple past and past participle circulized)

1. Synonym of encircle
   • 1595, Ouids Banquet of Sence. A Coronet for his Miſtreſſe Philoſophie, and his amorous Zodiacke. VVith a tranſlation of a Latine coppie, written by a Fryer, Anno Dom. 1400, London: I. R. for Richard Smith:

     And as a Pible caſt into a Spring, / Wee ſee a ſort of trembling cirkles riſe, / One forming other in theyr iſſuing / Till ouer all the Fount they circulize, / So this perpetuall-motion-making kiſſe, / Is propagate through all my faculties, / And makes my breaſt an endleſſe Fount of bliſſe, / Of which, if Gods could drink, theyr matchleſſe fare / Would make them much more bleſſed then they are.

   • a. 1618, John Davies of Hereford, edited by Alexander B. Grosart, The Complete Works of John Davies of Hereford (15..-1618), volume I, published 1878, page xliii, column 1; 30, column 2; 93, column 1:

     On either side from her Armes to her Wast, / It was vnsow’d, and made with Buttons fast / Of orient Pearle, of admirable size, / Which loopes of Azur’d silke did circulize : / So as yee might betweene the Buttons see, / Her smocke out-tuſt to show her levitee. […] These Partes though many, yet of three consist,&nsbp;/ That’s, Humors, Elements, and Qualities ; / Which three, doe of fow’r partes, a part subsist, / For from Earth, Water, Aire, and Fire doth rise / All that the Heav’nly Cope doth circulize ; / These are the Elements from whom proceede / The Humors with their foresaid qualities : / For, Bloud, Flegme, Choller, Melancholy breede / Hott, Cold, Moist, Dry, a fowr-fold vital Seede. […] Their Tile of Currall, and in Lozenge-wise, / Mother of pearle their sides shal circulize.

   • 1908, Electrical Construction and Maintenance, volume 8, page 22, column 1:

     You could also run an ad in your local paper and circulize all users of electricity with an advertisement, something like this: / Wouldn’t You Like To Try This Electric Flat Iron 30 Days Free?

   • 1926, Trade-marks: Hearings Held Before the Committee on Patents, House of Representatives, Sixty-ninth Congress, First Session on H. R. 6248, page 149:

     Now, there are concerns that circulize the business man, telling him that registration gives him the exclusive right to his mark throughout the United States, which we all know is not the fact.

   • 1966, The Wisconsin Bar Bulletin, volume 39, page 5:

     We do have appropriate committees for this purpose; three of our members are on the Judicial Council; we circulize all county bar […]

   • 1975, Proceedings, number 11, Japan Publications Trading Company, page 44:

     On the fourth orbit after liftoff, the Soyuz will start the first of two maneuvers to circulize the orbit 140 miles above the earth’s surface.

   • 1985, Small Business Administration Program Review (Part 3): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on SBA and SBIC Authority, Minority Enterprise and General Small Business Problems of the Committee on Small Business House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, page 191:

     I certainly intend to follow through in an appropriate length of time to see that they do perhaps at least circulize the SBA with the meeting subjects.

References

• Alexander B. Grosart, editor (1878), “Notes and Illustrations”, in The Complete Works of John Davies of Hereford (15..-1618), volume I, page 107, column 2: “P. 93, col. 1, […], l. 30, ‘circulize’=encircle :”
• “çīrc’-ụ-līze”, in The Encyclopædic Dictionary: A New and Original Work of Reference to All the Words in the English Language, with a Full Account of Their Origin, Meaning, Pronunciation, and Use. With Numerous Illustrations, volume II, London, Paris & New York: Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 1882, page 234, column 3: “v.t. [Lat. circul(us) = a circle, and Eng. suff. -ize.] To encircle.”
• James A. H. Murray, editor (1893), “Ci'rculize”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society, volume II, Oxford: at the Clarendon Press. New York: Macmillan and Co., page 427, column 3: “v. Obs. rare. [f. L. circul-us Circle + -ize.] To encircle.”
• “Ci'rculize”, in Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis: Stockholm Studies in English, volume 3, 1948, page 260: “vb. [(NED:) a 1618 ‘f. L. circul-us … + ize’]”