circumbendibus

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I then introduced them to the gibbet on Heavy-tree Heath; and from that, with a circumbendibus, I fairly lodged them in the horse-pond at the bottom of the garden.

From She Stoops to Conquer by Goldsmith, Oliver

Footnote 1: Schalttag, lit. 'intercalary day'--used of the 29th of February in leap years--impossible to translate except by a circumbendibus.

From The Wine-ghosts of Bremen by Hauff, Wilhelm

“Ah! you mean for us to make a circumbendibus over the ridge, and attack ’em from the back-side.

From The Yellow Chief by Reid, Mayne

I don’t altogether like the circumbendibus ways of that ere chap to windward.

From The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea by Tilney, F.C.

I made a wide circumbendibus, and talked in an erudite style concerning the malady of 'Fixed Idea,' which attacks people, marring, like one single discord, the otherwise harmonious organisms.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm