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ambilaevous

ambilaevous is the alternative spelling of ambilevous.

Meaning of ambilevous

Adjective

ambilevous (comparative more ambilevous, superlative most ambilevous)

  1. (rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
    • Again, Some are Ἀμφαριστεροὶ as Galen hath expreſſed : that is, Ambilevous or left-handed on both ſides; ſuch as with agility and vigour have not the uſe of either : who are not gymnaſtically compoſed : nor actively uſe thoſe parts. Now in theſe there is no right hand : of this conſtitution are...1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    ambisinistrous

Forms of ambilaevous

comparativemore ambilaevous
superlativemost ambilaevous

Questions about ambilaevous

What is ambilaevous the alternative spelling of?
Ambilaevous is the alternative spelling of ambilevous.

Words near ambilaevous in the dictionary

  1. ambiguously
  2. ambiguousness
  3. ambiguousnesses
  4. ambigus
  5. Ambika
  6. ambilaevous
  7. ambilanak
  8. ambilateral
  9. ambilaterality
  10. ambilaterally
  11. ambilevous

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