Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Circumvolution

Circumvolution , noun

[See Circumvolve.]

1.
The act of rolling round; the state of being rolled.
2.
A thing rolled round another. — Arbuthnot
3.
A roundabout procedure; a circumlocution.
He had neither time nor temper for sentimental circumvolutions. — Beaconsfield