circumbendibus

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I’m goin’ to ask one of you fellers to ride away up north and foller them sheepmen down, so they can’t come a circumbendibus on us again.

From Hidden Water by Dixon, Maynard

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

Reality has to be returned to, after this long circumbendibus, though Gavroche has it already.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William

Thirdly, A circumbendibus described by a few daring French dragoons, who succeeded in getting into the rear of our engineers' camp, at that time unguarded, and lightened some of the officers of their epaulettes.

From Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815 by Kincaid, J. (John)

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