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circumbendibus

[ sur-kuhm-ben-duh-buhs ]

noun

Informal.
plural circumbendibuses.
  1. a roundabout way; circumlocution.


circumbendibus

/ ˌɜːəˈɛԻɪə /

noun

  1. humorous.
    a circumlocution
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of circumbendibus1

1675–85; circum- + bend 1 + Latin -ibus ablative plural ending
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of circumbendibus1

C17: coined from circum- + bend 1, with a pseudo-Latin ending
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And it will be the second year of the Circumbendibus program, which adapts nontraditional texts, including a work by Samuel Beckett to coincide with a citywide Beckett Festival this fall.

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Than by a tedious circumbendibus.

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Reality has to be returned to, after this long circumbendibus, though Gavroche has it already.

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“Ah! you mean for us to make a circumbendibus over the ridge, and attack ’em from the back-side.

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It was rather a circumbendibus sort of affair, and somewhat narrow in places, though everywhere there was sufficient room to work the Lily in; and after a run of about half an hour, we shot out between two overhanging ledges, the extremities of which showed about six feet above water, and found ourselves rising and falling on the long swell of the open ocean.

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