A style that involves indirect ways of expressing things.
1The doctor still answered per ambages, ut mos oraculis.
2There should be ambages in such a matter.
3And the ambages should take time.
4It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some AMBAGES, and ways of speech not common.
5No "longæ ambages" for him.
6But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.'
7The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr. Glascock had lived.