| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Noun | 1. A roundabout or indirect way.[Websters]. | |
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Date "CIRCUMBENDIBUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1811. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CIRCUMBENDIBUS
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| Literature | 1: Circumbendibus (A). He took a circumbendibus, i.e. he went round about and round about before coming to the point. 2: "Partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus."- Sir W. Scott: Waverley, chap. xxiv. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Slang in 1811 | CIRCUMBENDIBUS. A roundabout way, or story. He took such a circumbendibus; he took such a circuit. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. | ||
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