ambidexter
Americanadjective
noun
Other Word Forms
Etymology
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 Charles Wentworth Upham
Some people," I began, "are what is called ambidexter, and can use either hand with equal ease.
From Mr. Isaacs by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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 Herman Melville
Halifax repeatedly prevented each of these parties from subjugating the other, and his ambidexter services seem to have been rewarded by the sincere hatred of both.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
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 J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
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