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Definition of Ambages
1. Noun. (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action.
Definition of Ambages
1. n. pl. A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
Definition of Ambages
1. Noun. Indirect or roundabout ways of talking; circumlocution. ¹
2. Noun. Indirect or roundabout routes or directions. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ambages
1. ambage [n] - See also: ambage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ambages
Literary usage of Ambages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"... these ambages, by venturing on a new discovery, have ruade their voyage in
half the time. ... ambages ..."
2. Cornelii Taciti historiarum libri qui supersunt: The histories of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus (1891)
"Tacitus, in explaining the prophecy of the Roman victory, is thus only following
a belief prevalent among his contemporaries. 9. quae ambages ..."
3. Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign by James Wood (1893)
"Longa est injuria, longs / ambages—Lon.ci - Long talking begets short hearing,
for people the story of her wrongs, tedious the details. I 'try. ..."
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