a. Obs. [f. (mod.)L. type *circulāri-us, whence also mod.F. circulaire: see -ARY2.] = CIRCULAR a. in various senses.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. liii. (1611), 295. Crosse and circularie speeches, wherein there are attributed to God such things as belong to Manhood, and to Man such as properly concerne the Deitie of Christ Iesus.
1610. Healey, St. Aug. Citie of God, XII. xix. (1620), 436. The circulary persons that turne all things round.
1664. Evelyn, trans. Freart’s Archit., xxviii. 68. Such of them whose superficies is most flexuous and circulary.
1682. Lond. Gaz., No. 1768/1. The King of Poland has issued his Circulary Letters for the Summoning a Dyet.
a. 1734. North, Lives, I. 313. He … made one at their circulary dinings, and the turn came to dine with him.
