rare. [f. CIRCUM- 1 + AMBAGE.] Round-about methods, or modes of speech. So Circumambaging ppl. a., using methods to get round people; Circumambagious a., round-about in speech, etc.
1650. Charleton, Paradoxes, Prol. 3. The Circumambages and complex Labyrinth of Discourse.
1754. Richardson, Grandison (1781), III. xvii. 139. All the pretty circumambages customary on these occasions. Ibid., iii. (1812). Ibid. (1750), in Mrs. Barbauld, Corresp. (1804), IV. 341. This circumambaging sex.
1834–43. Southey, Doctor, xl. (1862), 96. Circumambagious in my manner of narration.
