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Definitions for: Periphrastic [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)
Webster (1913) Definition: Per`i*phras"tic, Periphrastical
Synonyms: ambagious, circumlocutious, circumlocutory, indirect
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