(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:30:54

Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry (?), a.

Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic.

Shenstone.

The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

 

© Webster 1913.

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