Significados de ambage em inglês

The doctor still answered per ambages, ut mos oraculis.

There should be ambages in such a matter.

And the ambages should take time.

It is true, in doing this, I may perhaps be obliged to use some AMBAGES, and ways of speech not common.

No "longæ ambages" for him.

But 'art is a second nature, and imitateth that dextrously and compendiously, which nature performs by ambages and length of time.'

The American Minister in such matters was accustomed to fewer ambages than were common in the circles among which Mr. Glascock had lived.