circumbendibus
Americannoun
plural
circumbendibusesnoun
Etymology
Origin of circumbendibus
1675–85; circum- + bend 1 + Latin -ibus ablative plural ending
Example Sentences
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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 not for an hour afterwards--I needed a long circumbendibus before I could take heart to bring this melancholy business to an end--that I found myself knocking at Sebastian's door.
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Footnote 1: Schalttag, lit. 'intercalary day'--used of the 29th of February in leap years--impossible to translate except by a circumbendibus.
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I made a wide circumbendibus, and talked in an erudite style concerning the malady of 'Fixed Idea,' which attacks people, marring, like one single discord, the otherwise harmonious organisms.
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