Definition of Ambagis
||Am*ba"ges (&?;), n. pl. [L. (usually in
pl.); pref. ambi-, amb- + agere to drive: cf. F.
ambage.] A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or
proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
After many ambages, perspicuously define what this
melancholy is.
Burton.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution
- indirect or roundabout routes or directions
*1993: Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered. (Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford)
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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