circumlocutoryadj.
/səːkəmˈlɒkjuːtəri/ Marked by circumlocution, roundabout, periphrastic.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [adjective] > periphrastic or circumlocutory
ambagious?1532
periphrasticala1638
circumlatory1639
ambagical1652
ambitious1656
circumlocutory1659
roundabout1704
periphrastic1776
ambagitory1814
circumambagious1834
ambaginous1838
circumambulatory1842
circumlocutionary1863
circumlocutional1865
1659 Instruct. Oratory (1682) 31 (T.) Circumlocutory: that not to be expressed in many words which may be as fully in one.
1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 35 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Periphrase..being a diffus'd circumlocutory Manner of expressing a known Idea.
1841 W. M. Thackeray Crit. Rev. in Wks. (1886) XXIII. 180 Are we bound..to speak of humbug only in a circumlocutory way?
1870 W. S. Jevons Elem. Lessons Logic xxxiii. 289 It will..oblige us to use a circumlocutory phrase.
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