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† amˈbagitory, a. Obs. rare.
[f. L. ambāges (see ambage) by form-assoc. with dilatory, transitory, etc., but not etymologically defensible.]
Circumlocutory, ambagious.
1814Scott Wav. xxiv, Partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus. 1826― Woodst. I. v. 115 All the ambagitory expressions they made use of. |