dextrously

English

Etymology

dextrous +‎ -ly

Adverb

dextrously (comparative more dextrously, superlative most dextrously)

1. Alternative form of dexterously
   • 1653, Francis Rabelais [i.e., François Rabelais], translated by [Thomas Urquhart] and [Peter Anthony Motteux], “How Gargantua was instructed by Ponocrates, and in such sort disciplinated, that he lost not one hour of the Day”, in The Works of Francis Rabelais, Doctor in Physick: Containing Five Books of the Lives, Heroick Deeds, and Sayings of Gargantua, and His Sonne Pantagruel. […], London: [...] [Thomas Ratcliffe and Edward Mottershead] for Richard Baddeley, […], →OCLC; republished in volume I, London: [...] Navarre Society […], [1948], →OCLC, book the first, page 70:

     Another day he exercised the battel-axe, which he so dextrously wielded, both in the nimble, strong and smooth management of that weapon, and that in all the feats practiseable by it, that he passed Knight of Armes in the field, and at all Essayes.