10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CIRCUMBENDIBUS»
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: C to Fizzle
Circumstances. Circumbendibus, subs, (old).— A roundabout; a long - winded
story. [From Lat. cinum, around, + Eng. bend, with a Latin termination.] 1681.
Dryden, Sp. Friar, V., ii. 1 shall fetch him back with a circumbendibus, 1 warrant
him.
John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley, 1891
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Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... ...
CIRCUMBENDIBUS, subs. (old). — A roundabout ; a long - winded story. [From
Lat. eireum, around, + Eng. BEND, with a Latin termination.] 1681. DRYDEN, Sf.
Friar, V., ii. I shall fetch him back with a CIRCUMBENDIBUS, I warrant him.
John Stephen Farmer, Henley, 1891
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Further Aberdeen Reminiscences
From a word dropped by somebody — I forget who — this fresh project was
christened "The Circumbendibus," and that single word — quite a round mouthful
— that said word re-echoed verbally and by pen for many a long day. The
scheme ...
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The Plays of Oliver Goldsmith, Together with The Vicar of ...
Circumbendibus, a circuit. She Stoops, 158. Cp. Dryden, Spanish Friar, v. ii : ' Let
him alone ; I shall fetch him back with a circumbendibus ' (Dryden's Works, ed.
Scott and Saintsbury, vi. 515) ; Pope, Art of Sinking, 100, ' The Periphrasis, which
...
Oliver Goldsmith, Charles Edward Doble, George Ostler, 1909
5
Pen Sketches and Reminiscences of Sixty Years
For the other wards a similar process went on. After that the Chairman asked if
anyone had any questions to ask, when the heckler made his appearance,
asking the opinion of the candidates as to the Circumbendibus Railway, and if
they were ...
Albert Stanburrough Cook, 1901
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"In the Twinkling of an Eye,"
"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." She had punctuated the chorus with a
series ...
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Citizenship versus secularists and sacerdotalists, in the ...
It has been said that a rogue is only a fool with a circumbendibus, but sometimes
there is the circumbendibus without the roguery ; and as pence, grants, and
voluntaryism, all mean money into the school-masters' pockets and out of other ...
Joseph Arthur Partridge, 1873
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A Brief History of the Recent Future
THIRTY-TWO. a. tale. from. Analogue,. as. told. by. Benshipley. Circumbendibus.
One day a fool left his paradise and set out to find... himself. “The time has come,”
he said, “to find out just exactly who it is that I am.” But, as the fool soon learned ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Prob. an abbr. of fetch the water up. 6. Experience a seminal emission: coll: late
C.19–20. fetch. a. circumbendibus . Make a detour: C.19–20; ob. fetch...a. crack .
To strike (a person): (?low) coll: 1853, Dickens. fetch a howl . To weep noisily; cry
...
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Thesaurus
... sieve circumambages n pi syn VERBIAGE 1, circumbendibus, circumlocution,
periphrase, periphrasis, pleonasm, redundancy, roundabout, tautology, verbality
circumambulate vb syn WANDER 1, drift, meander, mooch, ramble, range, roam,
...
Merriam-Webster, Inc, 1988
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CIRCUMBENDIBUS»
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Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells …
Circumbendibus · 28 May 2015 23:41. 0 1 ... R042 Circumbendibus. 29 May 2015 5:20. 2 3 ... Reply | Pick. Report. palfreyman Circumbendibus. «The Guardian, May 15»
BBC Proms 2015: It's a season with practically everything
Reply | Pick. Report. Circumbendibus · 23 Apr 2015 6:40. 4 5. Where are the contemporary composers? I was hoping for some Georg Friedrich ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
The BBC Proms go clubbing: 2015 lineup includes Ibiza dance night
Circumbendibus · 23 Apr 2015 6:41. 8 9. Notable absences indeed. ... R042 Circumbendibus. 23 Apr 2015 7:29. 9 10. The problem is there's a ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
How can privacy survive in the era of the internet of things?
Those that fear data have something to hide. Or don't have busy-enough lives. Reply | Pick. Report · Circumbendibus tdp200416. 7 Apr 2015 2: ... «The Guardian, Apr 15»
