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handiwork|ˈhændɪwɜːk|
Forms: 1 handᵹeweorc, 2–4 handi-, hondiwerc, -werk(e; 6 handye-, -ie-, 6– handy work, 7– handiwork.
[OE. hand-ᵹeweorc, f. hand + ᵹeweorc work (a collective form). OE. had also handweorc handwork containing the simple weorc work. As ᵹeweorc, iwork did not survive in ME., hand-iwerc, was naturally analysed as a compound of the simple werc, with handi, often written separately, and treated as an adj.: see handy. See also, under handwork, the ME. northern form hande-werk.]
1. Work of the hands; a thing or collection of things made by the hands of any one.
c1000ælfric Deut. iv. 28 And ᵹe þeowiaþ fremdum Godum, manna hand ᵹeweorc. c1175Lamb. Hom. 129 And sette hine ouer his hondiwerc. a1225St. Marher. 10 Help me þin hondi werc. c1340Cursor M. 1589 (Trin.) His owne hondiwerke so soone Wolde god not hit were for⁓done. 1535Coverdale Ps. xviii[i]. 1 The very heauens declare the glory off God, and the very firmament sheweth his handye worke. 1635Quarles Embl. iii. x, I am thy handy-worke, thy creature, Lord. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 126 The Pagans heretofore Did their own Handy⁓works adore. 1795Wolcott (P. Pindar) Pindariana Wks. 1812 IV. 230 To see the handiworks of God In sun and moon and starry sky. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 112 To see the sempstress' handiwork.
2. Work done by the hands or by direct personal operation or agency. Sometimes, the work of man's hands as opposed to nature.
c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) ix. 15 On his hand ᵹeweorce byð ᵹefangen se synfulla. 1540Coverdale Fruitf. Less. iii. Wks. (Parker Soc.) I. 350 They..undertake to get their own living with their handy-work. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 44 b, An Image whiche is an artificial thyng, is made by the handie worke of man. 1658Bromhall Treat. Specters v. 327 The cave..seemed as if it had been made by handywork. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 67 The shapes of nature being of another kind of make than those of handy⁓works. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 2 What they performed was chiefly nature's handy-work.
b. Work (of any kind); doing, performance.
1838Dickens O. Twist xxix, That was your handiwork, Giles, I understand. 1874Green Short Hist. viii. §5. 510 The Liturgy and Canons had been Laud's own handiwork.
3. Manual employment: working with the hands, as opposed to head-work; practical work. [Cf. ]
1565J. Halle Hist. Expost. (Percy) 41 Chirurgery is Operatio manualis, that is handye worke. Wherefore..call it the handye worke of medicine. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 1326 The Estates..have raised handiworks as well as traffike and navigation to the highest point of perfection. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa ii. vii. 55 She accounted Handy-work a great means of advancing, and perfecting her Religions. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. Pref. 2 To what purpose would Geometry serve, were it not to contrive Rules for Handy-Works? 1866J. Brown Horæ Subs. Ser. i. Pref. note, We wish we saw more time, and more handiwork, more mind spent upon anatomy and surgery. |