circumbendibusn.
/səːkəmˈbɛndɪbəs/ A roundabout process or method; a twist, turn; circumlocution.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > indirect action or process > [noun]
circumquaque1546
circumduction1602
circumambulation1606
circuitya1626
indirectness1628
side wind1648
circumbendibus1681
ambagiosity1819
circumambulating1837
ambagiousness1867
circuitousness1869
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > periphrasis or circumlocution > a circumlocution
aboutspeecha1522
circumlocution1533
circumquaque1546
fetch-abouta1569
roundabout?c1570
periphrasis1579
compass1623
circumambages1649
circumbendibus1681
roundaboutedness1840
roundaboutility1863
amphilogism1866
1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar v. ii. 78 I shall fetch him back with a Circum-bendibus I warrant him.
1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 52 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. The Periphrasis, which the Moderns call the Circumbendibus.
1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer v. 93 With a circumbendibus, I fairly lodged them in the horsepond.
1791 J. Bentham Let. ?Nov. in Corr. (1981) IV. 338 The notice..was to come in circumbendibus through two different channels.
1814 W. Scott Waverley II. i. 6 Partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus . View more context for this quotation
1867 Sir W. Harcourt in Times 9 May 12/2 What is the intention of this clumsy, embarrassing, and vexatious circumbendibus?
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