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形容詞

amphibological (comparative more amphibological, superlative most amphibological)

1. (rare) of doubtful meaning, ambiguous, quibbling.
   • 1845, Alfred Binet, The Mind and the Brain (Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps) (Chapter IX, Definitions Of Psychology. Project Gutenberg):

     Consequently it must be recognised that the rather amphibological expression "soulless psychology" implies no negation of the existence of the soul.

2. (Can we verify this sense?) (linguistics) Grammatically ambiguous.

派生語

参照

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, Angus Stevenson and Georgia Hole, editors (2007), “amphibological”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 6th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
• Mrs. Byrne [Josefa Heifetz Byrne] (1979) “amphibological”, in Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure and Preposterous Words: Gathered from Numerous and Diverse Authoritative Sources, London: Granada Publishing, →ISBN.
• “amphibological”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.