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manichord Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈmænɪkɔːd|
Forms: 7–8 manicordion, 8 -ium, (7 manycord), 7–9 manicord, 8– manichord.
[a. F. manicorde, manichordion, corruptly a. med.L. *monochordium, monocordum, a. late Gr. µονοχόρδιον, Gr. µονόχορδον monochord; the word was perh. associated by popular etymology with L. manus hand. Cf. It. mana-, manicordo (Florio).]
= clavichord.
1611Cotgr., Monochordiser des doigts, to quauer with the fingers, to wag or play with them, as if he touched a Manicordion. 1668in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. vii. 378 Paid..for Ketty's Many-cords 01 06 00. 1670Ibid. 381 For a moneths teaching of Katy and Alice on the harpsicalls and manicords 01 00 00. 1710in E. W. Dunbar Soc. Life (1865) 15, I can play on the Treble and Gambo, Viol, Virginelles and Manichords. 1730–6Bailey (folio), Manicordium, a musical instrument in form of a spinet. 1823Roscoe tr. Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) I. v. 128 The manicord, or claricorde, was a sort of spinet resembling the virginals. 1830A. E. Bray Fitz of F. xvii. (1884) 148 She has a curious hand at the lute, and the manichord. |