amˈbagiously,adv.rare. [f.prec. + -ly2.] In a roundabout manner; circuitously, indirectly. 1678Cudworth Intell.Syst. i. iii. xxxvii. 157 The medicinal art..doth its work ambagiously, by the use of such medicaments as do but conduce..to help that which is nature indeed.