“We’re all circumbendibus, / Wherever we may be, / We’re all circumbendibus, / On land or on sea. / Rich or poor or middling, / Wherever we are found, / We’re all circumbendibus, / We’re all going round.”
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Circumbendibus
//sɝkm̩ˈbɛndɪbəs//
Synonyms for "circumbendibus" (22 found)
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Translations
13 translations across 5 languages.
Finnish
3 entries- ketunlenkki noun (roundabout route or process)
- kiertoilmaus noun (a roundabout or confusing manner)
- kiertotie noun (roundabout route or process)
French
4 entries- circonlocution noun (a roundabout or confusing manner)
- cultismegongorisme noun (a roundabout or confusing manner)
- galimatias noun (a roundabout or confusing manner)
- préciosité noun (a roundabout or confusing manner)
German
2 entries- Umschweif noun (a roundabout or confusing manner)
- Umweg noun (roundabout route or process)
Italian
1 entries- circonlocuzione noun (a roundabout or confusing manner)
Spanish
3 entries- circunloquio noun (a roundabout or confusing manner)
- rodeo noun (roundabout route or process)
- rodeo noun (a roundabout or confusing manner)
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The only irresistible inference that can be deduced from a bare perusal of this judgment is that it is circumbendibus in its tenor vague and conjectural in its logic and in fine it is a remarkable piece of a political document.
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If, as Coleridge says, “a knave is a fool with a circumbendibus,” then by instructing the knave you do but make the circumbendibus a wider one.
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After he had moved into the house and repaired it Mrs. Mary L. Bacon remembers standing with him one day and looking over the winding flag stones leading up to his front door. “And what is this,” he said, “a circumbendibus?”
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