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manuary, a. and n.|ˈmænjuːərɪ| [ad. L. manuārius, f. manu-s hand: see -ary1.] A. adj. 1. Of or pertaining to the hand; performed by or with the hands; = manual a. 1. Also, applied to the hands. Obs. exc. in affected use.
1576J. Woolton Chr. Manual D vj, Artes both lyberall, and manuary. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 158 Manuary craftes. 1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 263/2 An excellent Handevngvente... An other Manvarye vnctione. 1609Bp. Hall Holy Observ. i. 9 You shall rarely finde a man eminent in sundry faculties of minde, or sundry manuarie trades. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. p. xv, The holy Ghost challengeth the faculty euen of manuary skill to his owne gifte. 1656Blount Glossogr., Manuary, gotten by handy labor, or that fils the hand. 1860Med. Times 4 Feb. 118/2 Agitated mistresses institute manuary inspections among the Soyerinas of the basement. †2. That works with the hands. Obs.
1652C. B. Stapylton Herodian xiii. 111 Then Bridges built and Stones and Morter carry, As if he were a Work⁓man Manuary. 1678Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. i. §45. 54 A subordinate instrument of the divine wisdom, and the manuary opificer or executioner of it. B. n. †1. One who works with his hands. Obs.
1581Mulcaster Positions xxxix. (1887) 197 The common is deuided into marchauntes and manuaries generally. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 151 Gifts of tongues..and the like, which do no more argue a right to the son-ship of God, then the Manuaries infused skill of Bezaleel and Aholiab could prove them Saints. †2. Manual work; handicraft trade. Obs.
1581Mulcaster Positions v. (1887) 35 Whose vse [sc. of Drawing] all modelling, all mathematikes, all manuaries do finde and confesse to be to so notorious and so needefull. Ibid. 197 [After the words quoted under sense 1.] Marchandise containeth vnder it all those which liue..by buying and selling: Manuarie those whose handywork is their ware. 1616[see manubiary n.]. †3. ? An amanuensis. Obs.
1613E. Hoby Counter-snarle 32 It seemeth..my Manuaries haste, or the Printers misprision, hath turned go into (sed) as if the same had been continued. †4. A factory. Obs.
1625in Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. ii. I. 159 By making of societies or manuaries in all the principall burrowis for making of stuffes and other wairis. [¶ . An alleged sense ‘consecrated glove’ given in recent Dicts., is evolved from misunderstanding of the following passage. (In the original Latin manuarias and the other words are adjs. agreeing with indulgentias.)
1537tr. Latimer's Serm. bef. Convoc. D j b, Some brought forth..pardons, & these of wonderfull varietie, some stationaries..some Manuaries for handlers of reliques, some pedaries for pilgrimes. ] |