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circumbendibus|sɜːkəmˈbɛndɪbəs|
[A humorous formation from circum- + bend, with the ending of a L. ablative pl.]
A roundabout process or method; a twist, turn; circumlocution.
1681Dryden Sp. Friar v. ii, I shall fetch him back with a circum-bendibus, I warrant him. 1727Pope, etc. Art Sinking 100 The Periphrasis, which the moderns call the circumbendibus. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. v. ii, With a circumbendibus, I fairly lodged them in the horsepond. 1791Bentham Mem. Wks. 1843 X. 266 The notice..was to come in circumbendibus through two different channels. 1814Scott Wav. xxiv, Partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus. 1867Sir W. Harcourt in Times 9 May 12/2 What is the intention of this clumsy, embarrassing, and vexatious circumbendibus?
attrib.1714C. Johnson Country Lasses ii. ii, This fellow ruffles me so..with his most abominable circumbendibus phrases. |