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ambages

noun
/ˈam.bɪ.d͡ʒɪz/UK

Etymology

From Middle English ambages, from Old French ambages (modern French ambages), from Latin ambāges, from ambi- + agere (“to drive”).

  1. derived from ambāges
  2. derived from ambages
  3. inherited from ambages

Definitions

  1. Indirect or roundabout ways of talking

    Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution.

    • Thus from her cell Cumæan Sibyl sings / Ambiguous ambages, the cloyster rings / With the shrill sound thereof, in most dark strains.
    • Having thus briefly anatomized the body and soul of man,[…]I may now freely proceed to treat of my intended subject, to most men's capacity; and after many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is[…].

  2. Indirect or roundabout routes or directions.

    • Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered.

The neighborhood

Derived

circumambages

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ambages. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA