(แอมเบ' เจซ) n. ทางวกวน, การพูดจาอ้อมค้อม (roundabout ways)
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Ambages \Am*ba"ges\, n. pl. [L. (usually in pl.); pref. ambi-,
amb- + agere to drive: cf. F. ambage.]
A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding;
quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
[1913 Webster]
After many ambages, perspicuously define what this
melancholy is. --Burton.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ambages
n 1: (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action
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