amphigory

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It was like a blood-sucking mosquito but quaffing away analytic and synthetic processes of idea making, aggravating placid delusions in fever, and muddling the mind in an amphigory of simplistic human nature, which when unchecked, was really more carnal, multi-dimensioned, and beastly than anyone would care to presume.

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  1. A meaningless rigmarole, as of nonsense-verses or the like; a nonsensical parody.

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  • It was like a blood-sucking mosquito but quaffing away analytic and synthetic processes of idea making, aggravating placid delusions in fever, and muddling the mind in an amphigory of simplistic human nature, which when unchecked, was really more carnal, multi-dimensioned, and beastly than anyone would care to presume. —  An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
  • 31113] In the Jacobin club, when he delivers his "amphigory," there are sobs of emotion, "outcries and stamping of feet almost making the house tumble." [ —  The French Revolution - Volume 3
  • There is always a danger that a poet, in his search after the infinitely ingenious, may lapse into _amphigory_, into sheer absurdity and triviality, which Cowper, in spite of his elegant lightness, does not always escape. —  Some Diversions of a Man of Letters
  • It how to transfer vhs dvd me lacebark so tensional to be perfumed and to be sedulous by the demotic and quitter that i blowfly, and puts my own worship or pericarditis in amphigory. —  POWET.TV
 

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  1. Modified from French amphigouri, of uncertain origin; apparently a factitious word, based on Greek ἀμφί, on both sides.
 

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