The Collaborative International Dictionary
Circumbendibus \Cir`cum*bend"i*bus\, n.
A roundabout or indirect way. [Jocular]
--Goldsmith.
Wiktionary
a. (context often humorous English) indirect or roundabout n. 1 (context often humorous English) A roundabout route or process 2 (context often humorous English) A roundabout, indirect, or confusing manner of speech or writing
Usage examples of "circumbendibus".
Hastings had decided that we should first go to the eastward, so as to make what we sailors call a circumbendibus, which would keep us out of the general track.
Westergate, he made no scruple of speaking, in a circumbendibus manner, as to the particular reasons that I might have for preferring it to his design, which he roused, in his way, as more worthy of the state of the arts and the taste of the age.
I began, as we were both birzing the sugar for the second, to speak with a circumbendibus about my resignation of the trusts I had so long held with profit to the community.