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Dictionary: am·bage   (ăm'bĭj) pronunciation

n. Archaic
  1. Ambiguity. Often used in the plural.
  2. ambages Winding ways or indirect proceedings.

[Back-formation from Middle English ambages, equivocation, from Latin ambāges : amb-, ambi-, around; see ambi- + agere, to drive.]

ambagious am·ba'gious (ăm-bā'jəs) adj.

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archaic  1) roundabout, circuitous 2) periphrastic 3) devious
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The adjective has one meaning:

Meaning #1: roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; (`ambagious' is archaic)
  Synonyms: circumlocutious, circumlocutory, periphrastic


 
 
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