Circumlocutory

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Circumlocutory \Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry\, a.
     Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. --Shenstone.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory
           order.                                   --Chambers's


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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}]