a. Obs. rare. [f. L. ambāges (see AMBAGE) by form-assoc. with dilatory, transitory, etc., but not etymologically defensible.] Circumlocutory, ambagious.
1814. Scott, Wav., xxiv. Partaking of what scholars call the periphrastic and ambagitory, and the vulgar the circumbendibus. Ibid. (1826), Woodst., I. v. 115. All the ambagitory expressions they made use of.
