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▪ I. manacle, n.|ˈmænək(ə)l|
Forms: 4 manykil, manykle, 4–5 manycle, 4–7 manicle, 5 manakelle, 6 manakle, mannicle, Sc. mannakill, 7 manucle, 4– manacle.
[ME. manicle, a. OF. manicle handcuff (also, as in mod.F., gauntlet, handguard), ad. L. manicula little hand (also, handle of a plough, in med.L. gauntlet), dim. of manus hand. The late forms have the ending assimilated to that of words like spectacle, oracle, miracle.]
1. A fetter for the hand; usually pl.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxlix. 8 For to bynde..þe nobils of þaim in manykils of yryn. a1400Pistill of Susan 176 While domus men were dempt þis dede to clare Marred in Manicles þat made wer newe. 1513Douglas æneis ii. iii. 147 And, first of all, the mannakillis and hard bandis Chargit he lows of this ilk mannis handis. 1590Webbe Trav. (Arb.) 20 Our handes fastned with a payre of manacles. 1607Shakes. Cor. i. ix. 57 Wee'le put you (Like one that meanes his proper harme) in Manacles, Then reason safely with you. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. (1827) I. 362 Twenty thousand pair of manacles were found. 1838Lytton Leila ii. vii, Four soldiers..bearing with them one whose manacles proclaimed him a prisoner. 1897A. Balfour By Stroke of Sword xii. 43/2 The men..fastened my wrists together with manacles.
¶b. pl. in wider sense: Fetters, shackles.
1838Prescott Ferd. & Is. i. xi. (1842) I. 459 Their limbs loaded with heavy manacles.
c. fig. Chiefly pl., bonds, restraints.
1587Golding De Mornay xvii. 271 That [the body] which was given it [the soul] for an instrument, is become Manicles and Stocks. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. ii. iv. 93 The Manacles Of the all-building-Law. 1611― Cymb. i. i. 122 For my sake weare this [sc. a bracelet], It is a Manacle of Loue. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 27 No Poet durst have fetcht his Fancy so farr, as to call Prayer the Manicles of the Almighty, had not God himselfe..confessed it. 1670Moral State Eng. 94 The Widow..is alwaies ready to hold out her hand for new manacles. 1677Govt. Venice 3 They continued to elect a Prince, but with such manacles and restrictions, that they left him scarce any thing but the Title. 1852M. Arnold Morality I [Nature] knew not yet the gauge of time, Nor wore the manacles of space.
†2. transf. A tether or shackle for a horse. Obs.
1556–68Withals Dict. 38 b/2 The manakle for a horse nose, postomis. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 304 Bind with a manicle his [the horse's] fore-legge to the hinder-leg on the contrary side. Ibid. 321 There is a kind of Manicle for the pasternes of Horsses.
▪ II. manacle, v.|ˈmænək(ə)l|
Also 4 mankle, 5 manycle, 6 manakyll, mannacle, 6–7 manicle, 7 manakell, manackle, 8 Sc. mancle.
[f. prec. n.]
1. trans. To fetter or confine (the hands); to fetter with handcuffs.
c1306Song Exec. Sir S. Fraser in Pol. Songs (Camden) 218 Y-fetered were ys legges under his horse wombe; Bothe with yrn ant with stel mankled were ys honde. 14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 594/39 Maniculo, to manycle. 1483Cath. Angl. 227 To Manacle, manicare. 1530Palsgr. 632/2, I manakyll a suspecte person to make hym to confesse thynges... And he will nat confesse it manakyll hym, for undouted he is gylty. 1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. Bb viij b, Anone thou manacleste oure handes. 1622J. Taylor (Water P.) Thief Wks. (1630) ii. 124/2 Thieues are manacled when they are found. 1630Wadsworth Pilgr. 41 Their masters manicling their hands before for feare they should make an insurrection. 1791Cowper Iliad xxi. 38 Manacling their hands Behind them fast with their own tunic-strings. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. iii, Porteous..ordered him to be manacled. 1878Masque Poets 27 Roman hands Can never manacle alive The daughter of the Ptolomies.
b. loosely. To fetter; to fasten, secure.
1582Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 27 Thee gates of warfare wyl then bee mannacled hardly With steele bunch chayne knob. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, v. i. 149 Wee'l bate thy Bears to death, And manacle the Berard in their Chaines. 1610― Temp. i. ii. 461 Ile manacle thy necke and feete together.
2. fig. (Very common in the 17th c.)
1577F. de L'isle's Legendarie Pref. A iv b, I..being surprised, and as it were manicled with an ineuitable let. 1610Donne Pseudo-martyr 322 It seemes that the Pope..when he would fetter and manacle them [sc. Princes] in perplexities..is content to send his Breues. 1625Carpenter Geog. Del. ii. vii. (1635) 106 What should hinder the Red Sea to ouerflow all Egypt—vnlesse it were manicled with the Creatours power? 1649Lovelace Poems (1864) 99 Griefe too can manakell the minde. 1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. 1851 V. 440 A number of new Injunctions to manacle the native Liberty of Mankind. 1721Ramsay Scribblers Lashed 88 An ancle Or foot is seen, might monarchs mancle. 1858Bright Sp., Reform 21 Dec. (1876) 307 Men who seem to be manacled by the triumph of 1832.
Hence ˈmanacled ppl. a., ˈmanacling vbl. n.
1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 936/2 He remained so long manicled that his haire was folded togither. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 138 His manacled and benummed olde joynts. 1650Vind. Hammond's Addr. 31 The infinite goodnesse of God..is a manicling, or restraining his Omnipotence. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 535 At the corner are figures of manacled Indians. 1861Sat. Rev. 23 Nov. 523 A packed Assembly, reported by a manacled press. |