˜yÐÄvlog

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ambages

[ am-bey-jeez ]

noun

Archaic.
  1. winding, roundabout paths or ways.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of ambages1

First recorded in 1350–1400; Middle English, from Latin ²¹³¾²úÄ岵ŧ²õ (plural) “circuits,†equivalent to amb(i)- ambi- + -Äå²µ- (combining form of agere “to moveâ€) + -ŧ²õ plural ending; indagate
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Example Sentences

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After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is.

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He had not inquired, he had not dared to inquire how the law stood, but he knew that the law's uncertainties were proverbial and its ambages beyond telling.

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Give me your hand, and answer me without ambages, or ambiguities.

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Lay by these ambages; what seeks the Moor?

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May, in his translation of Lucan, uses the word ambages as an English word.

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