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Ambages

noun
1.
(archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action.





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"Ambages" Quotes from Famous Books



... winding &c. v.; convolution, involution, circumvolution; wave, undulation, tortuosity, anfractuosity[obs3]; sinuosity, sinuation[obs3]; meandering, circuit, circumbendibus[obs3], twist, twirl, windings and turnings, ambages[obs3]; torsion; inosculation[obs3]; reticulation &c. (crossing) 219; rivulation[obs3]; roughness &c. 256. coil, roll, curl; buckle, spiral, helix, corkscrew, worm, volute, rundle; tendril; scollop[obs3], scallop, escalop[obs3]; kink; ammonite, snakestone[obs3]. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus


Words linked to "Ambages" :   archaism, way, archaicism, path, plural, way of life, plural form


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