Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Placed on either side of a given thing indifferently: as, “the ambidextral adjective,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining equally to the right-hand side and the left-hand side.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining equally to the
left andright sides.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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If, with one hand, Dr. Newman has destroyed Protestantism, he has annihilated Romanism with the other; and the total result of his ambidextral efforts is to shake Christianity to its foundations.
Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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Protestantism, he has annihilated Romanism with the other; and the total result of his ambidextral efforts is to shake Christianity to its foundations.
Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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