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ambagious, a.|æmˈbeɪdʒəs| [ad. Fr. ambagieux, ad. L. ambāgiōs-us: see ambage and -ous.] Full of ambages: a. Circumlocutory, roundabout; b. Winding, circuitous.
1656Blount Glossogr., Ambagious, full of idle circumstances of speech, or of deceitful words. 1678H. More Annot. Glanvill's Sadducismus i. (1726) 60 All those ambagious Windings and Meanders of feigned Abstraction. 1682― Annot. Glanvill's Lux Orient. 176 A more operose and ambagious inference. 1731Bailey, Ambagious, full of far-fetch'd speeches. 1870Smith Syn. & Antonyms, Devious..Syn. Tortuous, ambagious, roundabout. |