ambagitory

== English == === Adjective === ambagitory (comparative more ambagitory, superlative most ambagitory) (obsolete) periphrastic or circumlocutory 1979 Alastair Fowler, "Genre and the Literary Canon," New Literary History, Vol. 11, No. 1, Anniversary Issue: II (Autumn, 1979), pp. 97-119 He multiplied allusions to serious romance predecessors, introduced romantic poems and songs both as quotations and as intrafictional events, explicitly followed an "ambagitory" narrative method, and continually emphasized the romantic character of landscapes [...]