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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Circumlocutory \Cir`cum*loc"u*to*ry\, a.
   Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. --Shenstone.

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

资料来源 : WordNet®

circumlocutory
     adj : roundabout and unnecessarily wordy; "had a preference for
           circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than
           forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a
           worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the
           intolerable wrestle/ With words and
           meanings."-T.S.Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic) [syn: {circumlocutious},
            {periphrastic}, {ambagious}]