Definitions

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  • noun plural A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.

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  • noun Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.
  • noun Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.

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  • noun (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action

Etymologies

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From Old French ambages (French ambages), from Latin ambāges, from ambi- + agere ("to drive").

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  • JM ambles along ambages and arrives at A.

    October 26, 2010