Amphibology

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /amfɪˈbÉ’lÉ™dÊ’i/

Alternative forms

• amphibologie

Origin

From French amphibologie, from late Latin amphibologia, earlier amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία ("ambiguity").

Full definition of amphibology

Noun

1. (archaic) Amphiboly.
• 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, Folio Society 2006, vol. 1 p. 133:In Athens men learn'd ... to resolve a sophisticall argument, and to confound the imposture and amphibologie of words, captiously enterlaced together ....