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单词 circumambages
释义 circumˈambages rare.
[f. circum- 1 + ambage.]
Round-about methods, or modes of speech. So circumˈambaging ppl. a., using methods to get round people; circumamˈbagious a., round-about in speech, etc.
1650Charleton Paradoxes Prol. 3 The Circumambages and complex Labyrinth of Discourse.1754Richardson Grandison (1781) III. xvii. 139 All the pretty circumambages customary on these occasions.Ibid. iii. (1812)1750― in Mrs. Barbauld Corresp. (1804) IV. 341 This circumambaging sex.1834–43Southey Doctor xl. (1862) 96 Circumambagious in my manner of narration.
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