circuit

Roget category 629

5. Words relating to the voluntary powers
› 5.2. Prospective volition
›› 5.2.1. Conceptional volition

#629. Circuit

noun

circuit, roundabout way, digression, detour, circumbendibus, ambages^†, loop — winding etc. (circuition) 311^† — zigzag etc. (deviation) 279.

verb

perform a circuit — go round about, go out of one's way — make a detour — meander etc. (deviate) 279.
lead a pretty dance — beat about the bush — make two bites of a cherry.

adjective

circuitous, indirect, roundabout — zigzag etc. (deviating) 279 — backhanded.

adverb

by a side wind, by an indirect course — in a roundabout way — from pillar to post.

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