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circumlocutory
(encz) | circumlocutory,rozvláčný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Circumlocutory
(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
Journal.
[1913 Webster] |
circumlocutory
(wn) | 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] |
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circumlocutory
(encz) | circumlocutory,rozvláčný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
circumlocutory
(wn) | 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] |
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