In a circular manner or direction; going around in a circle or moving along a circular path.
From 'circular' (from Latin 'circularis') + '-wise' (archaic suffix meaning 'manner' or 'direction,' as in 'clockwise'). An older formation largely replaced by '-ize' words.
'-Wise' is an old English suffix that survives today in 'clockwise' and 'counterclockwise'—'circularwise' is its forgotten cousin, a ghost of how English used to describe directions before we standardized the '-wise' words!
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