circumbendibus

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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

He   took such a circumbendibus; he took such a circuit.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis

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

And believe I will just fancy I see this place too; it sounds rather a "circumbendibus" for us this journey.

From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)

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