/ · 1894 Brewer’s · C · Circumbendibus (A)
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He took a circumbendibus, i.e. he went round about and round about before coming to the point.
“Partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus.”—Sir W. Scott: Waverley, chap. xxiv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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