ambages

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Определение ambages в Английский Язык Турецкий язык словарь

{i} dolaylı davranış

{i} dolambaçlı yol

Английский Язык - Английский Язык

Определение ambages в Английский Язык Английский Язык словарь

Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution

Having thus briefly anatomized the body and soul of man, I may now freely proceed to treat of my intended subject , to most men's capacity; and after many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is .

Indirect or roundabout routes or directions

Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town. Its ambages of streets bewildered.

{n} a circumlocution, tediousness, round

(archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action

{i} ambiguousness, affairs that are conducted in a round about manner (Archaic)

A circuit; a winding

Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech

Расстановка переносов

am·ba·ges

Этимология

() From Old French ambages (French ambages), from Latin ambāges, from ambi- + agere (“to drive”).