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dexterwise en · ADV

Etymology

From dexter + -wise.

Meanings

  1. (archaic, not-comparable) Dexter; on or toward the right-hand side from the wearer's perspective.
    • Or, a lion's gamb, erased dexterwise gules. 1884, Jacob Youde William Lloyd, The History of the Princes, the Lords Marcher, and the Ancient Nobility of Powys Fadog, and the Ancient Lords of Arwystli, Cedewen, and Meirionydd, page 198:
    • [...] on the reverse is a fish, naiant dexterwise; the diameter is 0.02, and the material copper, silver being the only other metal used. 1876, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, page 273:
    • In his day, however, only two types were known, one with an amphora and the other with a goat on the reverse, the obverse of both showing a helmeted head of Pallas facing dexterwise. 1879, Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), The Journal of the Royal Geographic Society of London, page 165: