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Word: Ambagious
Speech Type: Adjective
mid 16th century; earliest use found in Tales & Quicke Answeres. From classical Latin ambāgiōsus roundabout, indirect, circuitous (2nd century a.d.) from ambāgēs + -ōsus
Of language, writing, or thought: characterized by (verbose) indirectness; circumlocutory, roundabout; (formerly also) †deceptive (obsolete). Also of a person: that uses such language.
Of a path, way, or course: winding, circuitous. Chiefly figurative and in figurative contexts.
