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manipular, a. (n.)|məˈnɪpjʊlə(r)|
[ad. L. manipulār-is, f. manipul-us maniple.]
A. adj.
1. Pertaining to the maniple in the ancient Roman army; characterized by formation in maniples.
1623Bingham Xenophon etc., Lipsius' Comp. 6 The manipular Battalion insinuated it selfe into the void spaces, and so ouerthrew the Phalange. 1656Blount Glossogr., Manipular, belonging to a band of men. 1833in Philol. Museum II. 479 The earliest constitution of the manipular legion. 1886Pelham in Encycl. Brit. XX. 746/2 In the new manipular system, with its three lines, no regard was paid to civic distinctions.
2. Of the form of a sheaf. rare.
1805–17R. Jameson Char. Min. (ed. 3) 133 Manipular or sheaf-like. Consists of a number of crystals that diverge towards both ends, and are narrower in the middle, thus resembling a sheaf.
3. Of or pertaining to manipulation or handling.
The sense is not etymologically justifiable, being due to association with manipulate v.
1831Fraser's Mag. IV. 92 Such an unequivocal manipular token of resentment. 1841–4Emerson Ess. Ser. i. i. (1876) 16 What the former age has epitomized into a formula or rule for manipular convenience. 1849Lytton Caxtons ii. xi. lviii, Denoting, symbolically, how he would like to do with Uncle Jack, could he once get him safe and snug under his manipular operations. 1852J. Martineau Phases of Faith Ess., etc. (1891) III. 7 Hence the invariable presence of some physical element in all that it [sc. Catholicism] looks upon as venerable. Its rites are a manipular invocation of God.
B. n. A soldier of a maniple.
1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VII. lvi. 91 The emperor himself,..regardless of the military indecorum, expostulated and reasoned with his manipulars.
Hence maˈnipularly adv., in a ‘manipular’ form (cf. sense 2 above).
1804R. Jameson Syst. Min. (1816) I. 305 The crystals are sometimes manipularly and scopiformly aggregated. |