ambidexter
Americanadjective
noun
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Origin of ambidexter
From Late Latin, dating back to 1525–35; see origin at ambi-, dexter
Example Sentences
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It is difficult, writing as Cotton Mather often did, and had great skill in doing, in what Calef calls "the ambidexter" style, to ascertain his ideas.
From Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A Reply by Upham, Charles Wentworth
I have this moment your more than kind letter, and congratulate your Grace that, in one sense of the word, you can be what you never will be in any other, ambidexter.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson)
They are, indeed, nearly ambidexter; but the sword, the spear and the fish-gig are always used with the right hand.
From A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson by Tench, Watkin
Presently, being a five's player, and ambidexter, he shifted his hand, and the tremendous whacks resounded on the bull's left side.
From A Woman-Hater by Reade, Charles
Both ambidexter and quadruple-armed is that man, who in a day-laborer's body, possesses a day-laboring soul.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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