ETYMOLOGY
from in- + dexterous
EXAMPLE
“…An Issue must also be made with the hand of a skilfull Artist, for I have often observed from an indextrous way of making an Issue in the occiput a thousand mischiefs and death has followed: for if the Chirurgeon try to burn all the Skin with the Iron, I have often seen a Convulsion follow, and the child die of a most cruel death…”
From: Mercurius compitalitius;
Or, A Guide to the Practical Physician
By Theophill Bonet, 1684
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