| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
| |
| ambage |
| |
| SYLLABICATION: | am·bage |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   m b j |
| NOUN: | Archaic 1. Ambiguity. Often used in the plural. 2. ambages Winding ways or indirect proceedings. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Back-formation from Middle English ambages, equivocation, from Latin amb ges : amb-, ambi-, around; see ambi– + agere, to drive; see ag- in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | am·bagious (m-bj s) —ADJECTIVE
| | |
| |
| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
