Definition of "circumbendibus" []

• Indirect or roundabout (adjective)
• A roundabout route or process (noun)
• A roundabout, indirect, or confusing manner of speech or writing (noun)

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• "Our intention was to travel north, as we knew that was the road leading from the colony; but Hastings had decided that we should first go to the eastward, so as to make what we sailors call a circumbendibus, which would keep us out of the general track."
• "And believe I will just fancy I see this place too; it sounds rather a "circumbendibus" for us this journey."
• "I thanked my unknown friend in the mask, and withdrawing a few steps, came, by a little "circumbendibus," upon the flank of the Count."