ambiguify

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- Proto-Indo-European *-s Proto-Indo-European *h₂énts? Proto-Indo-European *h₂m̥bʰíder. Proto-Italic *amβi Latin ambi- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin ambig(ō) Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Italic *-wos Latin -uus Latin ambiguuslbor. English ambigu(ous) Latin -i- Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der. Proto-Italic *-fakāō Latin -ficō Latin -ificāreder. Old French -ifierbor. Middle English -ifien English -ify English ambiguify From ambigu(ous) + -ify.

1. To ambiguate; to make ambiguous.

   “So the performer must understand what Mozart has done — that he takes our universal instinct of symmetry and plays with it, violates it, ambiguifies it, by using the equally universal process of deletion to operate counter to those instinctive symmetrical forces that operate in us.”

   “Ultimately, however, even that recognition is ambiguified in Maria's refusal to confront the party responsible for her poisoned pregnancy.”