ambidexter

[ am-bi-dek-ster ]

adjective

1. Archaic. ambidextrous.

noun

1. Obsolete. an ambidextrous person.

Other Words From

• ambi·dextral adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of ambidexter¹

From Late Latin, dating back to 1525–35; ambi-, dexter

Example Sentences

LeftÐhanded on both sides; clumsy; Ð opposed to ambidexter.

From Project Gutenberg

The comic scenes have a link of connection with the tragic ones in Ambidexter, the vice and accomplice of the villanous tyrant.

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The fall of the Prince Cambyses, it should be added, is accidentally or providentially upon his own sword; and only the exit of Ambidexter and a few words from the three lords, who pronounce the accident a just reward from heaven and promise princely burial, are required to bring the play to a close.

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Ambidexter, am-bi-deks′tėr, adj. and n. able to use both hands with equal facility: double-dealing, or a double-dealer.—n.

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The advice seems to us somewhat ambidexter, holding forth in one hand exhortations to caution and leniency, and in the other an exhortation to make vigorous and prompt application of English witchcraft laws and usages which permitted and implied resort to most barbarous processes, and admitted all imaginable sorts of evidence.

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