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Ambidexterity   Listen
noun
Ambidexterity  n.  
1.
The quality of being ambidextrous; the faculty of using both hands with equal facility. Hence: Versatility; general readiness; as, ambidexterity of argumentation. "Ignorant I was of the human frame, and of its latent powers, as regarded speed, force, and ambidexterity."
2.
Double-dealing. (Law) A juror's taking of money from the both parties for a verdict.





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"Ambidexterity" Quotes from Famous Books



... the hand which the child must coordinate is of particular importance. He is taught to touch the outline of the geometrical figures with the soft tips of the index and middle finger of the right hand, or of the left as well, if one believes in ambidexterity. (Fig. 24.) The child is made to touch the outline, not only of the inset, but also of the corresponding aperture, and, only after having touched them, is he to put back the inset ...
— Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook • Maria Montessori
... He has recently escaped from Dr Eustace's private asylum for demented gentlemen. Born out of bedlock hereditary epilepsy is present, the consequence of unbridled lust. Traces of elephantiasis have been discovered among his ascendants. There are marked symptoms of chronic exhibitionism. Ambidexterity is also latent. He is prematurely bald from selfabuse, perversely idealistic in consequence, a reformed rake, and has metal teeth. In consequence of a family complex he has temporarily lost his memory and I believe him to be more sinned against than sinning. ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... in this our Authours book, I find in his fifteenth Chapter: where he instructs his Prince to use such an ambidexterity as that he may serve himselfe either of vertue, or vice, according to his advantage, which in true pollicy is neither good in attaining the Principality nor in securing it when it is attaind. For Politicks, presuppose ...
— Machiavelli, Volume I - The Art of War; and The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli


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