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circumlocutory |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Circumlocutory \Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry\, a. Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. --Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order --Chambers's Journal. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: circumlocutory 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) [syn: {circumlocutious}, {periphrastic}, {ambagious}]
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