(very rare) Alternative spelling of ambilevousThe Oxford English Dictionary, second edition (1989) lists the ligated spelling (ambilævous) as the primary form, with the monographical spelling (ambilevous) listed as secondary.Listed thus as a synonym of ambisinistrous on page 284 of Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism of Everyday Life (Simon & Schuster, 1996) by Marjorie B. Garber (ISBN 0684803089, 9780684803081).
1879: Henry Power and Leonard William Sedgwick of the New Sydenham Society, The New Sydenham Society’s Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences: (based on Mayne’s Lexicon) (1881 republication), volume 1 (The New Sydenham Society)Ambilævous, Having left hands only; that is, clumsy.
1955: Joseph Twadell Shipley, Dictionary of Early English, page 37 (Philosophical Library)…ambilævous; hence, uncommonly awkward.
2001: Delys Bird, Robert Dixon, and Christopher Lee, Authority and Influence, page 54 (University of Queensland Press; ISBN 0702232033, 9780702232039)... we notice the nonsense: ‘Accomplished as the criticism in this book may be, it cannot be definitive’; we notice the ludicrous remarks: ‘let it be said firmly now that I cannot think of any living Australian novelist who …’, ‘when Amy commits adultery, it is in the context of the rose bush’; we notice the bad grammar and the worse, the unbelievably ambilævous, prose of poets who are lecturers in English literature …
