circumbendibus

circumbendibus englanniksi

1. indirect or roundabout

2. {{quote-book|en|year=1918|author=Sidney Watson|title=In the Twinkling of an Eye|publisher=Bible institute of Los Angeles|page=66

3. 1987 Syed Tassadque Hussain, ''Reflections on Kashmir politics,''Rima Pub. House, p59

The only irresistible inference that can be deduced from a bare perusal of this judgment is that it is circumbendibus in its tenor vague and conjectural in its logic and in fine it is a remarkable piece of a political document.

4. A roundabout route or process

5. {{quote-book|en|year=1899|author=Herbert Spencer|title=Social Statics; Or, the Conditions Essential to Human Happiness Specified, and the First of Them Developed|publisher=D. Appleton and company|page=383

6. 1907 Albert Temple Swing, ''James Harris Fairchild; Or Sixty-Eight Years with a Christian College,'' F. H. Revell company, p155

After he had moved into the house and repaired it Mrs. Mary L. Bacon remembers standing with him one day and looking over the winding flag stones leading up to his front door. “And what is this,” he said, “a ''circumbendibus''?”

7. {{quote-book|en|year=1968|author=George William Erskine Russell|title=Afterthoughts|publisher=Ayer Publishing|page=152

8. A roundabout, indirect, or confusing manner of speech or writing