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English Dictionary: ambagious	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for ambagious
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ambagious adj roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn- out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic) Synonym(s): circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ambagious \Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.] Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]