Both Uses of
circuitous
in
Don Quixote
- The words of Anselmo struck Lothario with astonishment, unable as he was to conjecture the purport of such a lengthy preamble; and though be strove to imagine what desire it could be that so troubled his friend, his conjectures were all far from the truth, and to relieve the anxiety which this perplexity was causing him, he told him he was doing a flagrant injustice to their great friendship in seeking circuitous methods of confiding to him his most hidden thoughts, for he well knew he might reckon upon his counsel in diverting them, or his help in carrying them into effect.†
Chpt 1.33-34 *circuitous = indirect
- for heaven by strange circuitous ways, mysterious and incomprehensible to man, raises up the fallen and makes rich the poor.†
Chpt 2.59-50
Definition:
indirect -- while traveling somewhere, or in saying or doing something