What is the meaning of periphrastic?

adjective

  • Roundabout and unnecessarily wordy) "had a preference for circumlocutious (or circumlocutory) rather than forthright expression"; "A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion,/ Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle/ With words and meanings.-T. S. Eliot; (`ambagious' is archaic.
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