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Definition of Sinistrous
1. a. Being on the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral.
Definition of Sinistrous
1. Adjective. (archaic) On the left side; inclined to the left; sinistral. ¹
2. Adjective. (archaic) wrong; absurd; perverse ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sinistrous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Sinistrous
1.
1. Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; opposed to dextral.
2.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sinistrous
Literary usage of Sinistrous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... and "conjugations" of things, such as finite and infinite, dextrous and
sinistrous, even and odd, and the like.7 As also, that of matter. ..."
2. The Antiquarian (1871)
"... which an old writer has Englished thus :— " You (Druids) free rom wars, with
barbarous deuices sinistrous rites ..."
3. History of the French revolution, and of the wars resulting from that by John James M'Gregor (1821)
"... which was forced to capitulate; but the adhesion of Fribourg to the confederacy,
compensated in some measure for this sinistrous even't. ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1895)
"&n., bk. vi. to the Greeks meant "ill-omened," meant 218. sinistrous. Unfavourable,
unfor- "well-omened " to the Romans. ..."
5. The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland by Scotland Privy Council (1904)
"... sinistrous practises his Majestie, with advice of the Lords of his ... we ar
informed of diverse sinistrous practises tending to the hinderance ond ..."
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