Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Related to or derived from Indexes.
- Relating to the index finger or the second digit of the forefoot.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Indexical.
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- adjective
indexical
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Englishman for all this was nothing daunted, but holding up his two hands in the air, kept them in such form that he closed the three master-fingers in his fist, and passing his thumbs through his indical or foremost and middle fingers, his auriculary or little fingers remained extended and stretched out, and so presented he them to Panurge.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The Englishman for all this was nothing daunted, but holding up his two hands in the air, kept them in such form that he closed the three master-fingers in his fist, and passing his thumbs through his indical or foremost and middle fingers, his auriculary or little fingers remained extended and stretched out, and so presented he them to Panurge.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The Englishman for all this was nothing daunted, but holding up his two hands in the air, kept them in such form that he closed the three master-fingers in his fist, and passing his thumbs through his indical or foremost and middle fingers, his auriculary or little fingers remained extended and stretched out, and so presented he them to Panurge.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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