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Ambagious

Ambagious Meaning & Definition
Ambagious Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of 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)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ambagious: circumlocutious | circumlocutory | indirect | periphrastic

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Ambagious In Webster's Dictionary

\Am*ba"gious\, a. [L. ambagiosus.] Circumlocutory; circuitous. [R.]

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