Ambilaevous vs Ambilevous - What's the difference?
ambilaevous | ambilevous | Alternative forms |
(rare) Having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.
* 1646': Sir Thomas Browne and Nath Ekins, ''Pseudodoxia Epidemica'' (' 1658 republication),
* 1953 : The Pediatric Clinics of North America ,
* 1960 : Harry Bakwin and Ruth Mae Morris Bakwin, Clinical Management of Behavior Disorders in Children ,
* 1998 : Yoav Ariel, Shlomo Biderman, and Ornan Rotem, Relativism and Beyond ,
Ambilevous is a alternative form of ambilaevous.
As adjectives the difference between ambilaevous and ambilevous
is that ambilaevous is an alternative spelling of ambilevous while ambilevous is having equally bad ability in both hands; clumsy; butterfingered.ambilevous
English
Alternative forms
* The Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) lists the ligated spelling () listed as secondary. (very rare) * ambilaevousAdjective
(en adjective)page 164
- Again, Some are as Galen hath expre??ed : that is, Ambilevous or left-handed on both ?ides; ?uch as with agility and vigour have not the u?e of either : who are not gymna?tically compo?ed : nor actively u?e tho?e parts. Now in the?e there is no right hand : of this con?titution are many women, and ?ome men, who though they accu?tome them?elves unto either hand, do dexterou?ly make u?e of neither.
page 607(W.B. Saunders Co.)
- Whereas the ambidextrous person is regarded as one who is capable of using both hands with equal dexterity, there are others, referred to as ambilevous , who use both hands equally awkwardly.
page 330(Saunders)
- The ambilevous (the opposite of ambidextrous) child is unable to use either hand more skillfully than the other, but is equally awkward in the use of each.
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- I as a right-handed person do not have the option of becoming genuinely ambidextrous, literally one with ‘two right hands’. And I surely must guard against sinking into one is who is doubly left-handed, or ambilevous . (We may notice the prejudice uncovered by etymology.) But I can, by will and practice, lessen the native inferiority of my weaker side.