amphibologie

amphibologie (countable and uncountable, plural amphibologies)

1. Obsolete spelling of amphibology.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Nearer and More Immediate Causes of Popular Errours, both in the Wiser, and Common Sort, Misapprehension, Fallacy, or False Distinction, Credulity, Supinity, Adherence unto Antiquitie, Tradition, and Authoritie”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 13:

     [T]he fallacie of Æquivocation and Amphibologie, […] conclude from the ambiguity of ſome vvord, or the ambiguous ſintaxis of many put together.

Learned borrowing from Latin amphibologia, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).

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amphibologie f (plural amphibologies)

1. amphibology

• “amphibologie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.