Ambages

n. pl.

1.

A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. - Burton.

Noun

1.

ambages - (archaic) roundabout or mysterious ways of action

archaicism, archaism, path, way, way of life