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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
circumfix .
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A very lucid explanation certainly, but rendered a little difficult of apprehension by the effort necessary for realising in a mental picture the conglobation of a fulgureous exhalation by a circumfixed humour.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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He gives illustrations of some neolithic axes and hammers, and then proceeds to state that in the opinion of philosophers they are generated in the sky by a fulgureous exhalation (whatever that may look like) conglobed in a cloud by a circumfixed humour, and baked hard, as it were, by intense heat.
Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873
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