AMBAGES

AMBA'GES, noun [Latin amb and ago, to drive.]1. A circumlocution; a circuit of words to express ideas which may be expressed in fewer words.2. A winding or turning.

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ambages. Ambages, n. a circumlocution, tediousness, round

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‖Am‐ba″ges (�), n. pl. [[L. (usually in pl.); pref. ambi-, amb- + agere to drive: cf. F. ambage.]] A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton.