v. [f. CIRCULAR + -IZE.]
1. trans. To make circular.
1799. Southey, Lett., 5 June, in Life & Corr. (1850), II. 18. I pray you to send me the old woman who was circularised, O, who saw her own back … the omikron of old women.
2. To ply with circulars, send circulars to.
1848. Tait’s Mag., XV. 255. One cemetery company in particular circularized us in very pressing and persuasive terms.
1887. Echo, 21 April, 1. To circularise the lodges of the Freemasons for subscriptions.
Hence Circularizer, Circularizing vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1881. World, 22 June, 5/2. It at once takes [them] out of the category of common prospectus-issuers. They are not as other circularisers are. Ibid. Here they are … set forth with all possible elaborateness of circularising.
1886. Edin. Rev., 7 Jan., 84. Mischief wrought by the circularising firms.
