circumlocutory - Dictionary Definitions

Circumlocutory CIRCUMLOCUTORY, a. Pertaining to circumlocution; consisting or contained in a compass of words; periphrastic.

circumlocutory adj 1: 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, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious]

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

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