† ambagitoryadj.
Obsolete.
Of language: indirect, circumlocutory.
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ambagious?1532
periphrasticala1638
circumlatory1639
ambagical1652
ambitious1656
circumlocutory1659
roundabout1704
periphrastic1776
ambagitory1814
circumambagious1834
ambaginous1838
circumambulatory1842
circumlocutionary1863
circumlocutional1865
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
1863 Bentley's Misc. 53 214 Not to shroud my meaning beneath ambagitory phrases or circumlocutory artifices, but to be plain with you.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019).
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