Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Circumlocutory \Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry\, a.
Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. --Shenstone.
The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory
order. --Chambers's
Journal.
Source : WordNet®
circumlocutory
adj : 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},
{periphrastic}, {ambagious}]