a. rare. [f. AMPHIBOLE + -IC. Cf. symbolic.]
1. Of the nature of amphiboly; ambiguous, equivocal.
1873. Daily News, 11 Aug., 3/4. I turn from this amphibolic pleading to a more succinct opinion.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 621. A variably long period of irresolution with irregular fluctuations of temperature … the so-called amphibolic stage.
2. Of, or of the nature of, the mineral amphibole.
1852. T. Ross, Humboldt’s Trav., II. xxiv. 512. The decomposition of some amphibolic or chloritic strata.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., viii. 202. A greenish amphibolic stone.
