circumbendibus
noun
a roundabout way; circumlocution.
circumbendibuses
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pluralof circumbendibus.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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And do others like it if you will take circumbendibuses for sound's sake!
From The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. by Thomas Carlyle
