CIRCUMAMBAGIOUSADJ.
roundabout in speech, etc.; not keeping to the point ...1834-43 rare ETYMOLOGY from circum- around + ambages indirect or roundabout ways FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1834-43 - See example below EXAMPLE "...Reader, thou mayest perhaps have thought me at times disposed to be circumambagious in my manner of narration." From: The Doctor By: Robert Southey, 1843-43 SOURCES • A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, James Murray, 1887-1933 • A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908 • The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia, William Dwight Whitney, 1889-1891 • Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language, Rev. Thomas Davidson, 1903 • The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language, Rt. Rev. Samuel Fallows, 1885 • A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, Isaac K. Funk, 1908
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
Archives
September 2021
|