a. [ad. Fr. ambagieux, ad. L. ambāgiōs-us: see AMBAGE and -OUS.] Full of ambages: a. Circumlocutory, roundabout; b. Winding, circuitous.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Ambagious, full of idle circumstances of speech, or of deceitful words.
1678. H. More, Annot. Glanvill’s Sadducismus, I. (1726), 60. All those ambagious Windings and Meanders of feigned Abstraction. Ibid. (1682), Annot. Glanvill’s Lux Orient., 176. A more operose and ambagious inference.
1731. Bailey, Ambagious, full of far-fetch’d speeches.
1870. Smith, Syn. & Antonyms, Devious … Syn. Tortuous, ambagious, roundabout.
