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manuduction|mænjuːˈdʌkʃən|
Also 6 manduccyon.
[ad. med.L. manūductiōn-em, n. of action f. manū dūcĕre to lead by hand.]
1. The action of leading, guiding, or introducing; guidance, introduction, direction.
1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) iv. xxvii. 317 By the meane manduccyon of thynges corporalles & sensybles a man may come unto the contemplacyon of spyrytualles. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher 514 Vertuous actions haue reference (not of desert, but of disposition, and instrumentall efficiencie or manuduction) to beatitude. 1642Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. xvi. 85 Young Students..wander for want of manuduction. 1723Pres. St. Russia I. 18 Well stored with Money, but without any Instruction or Manuduction. 1872Blackie Lays Highl. Introd. 54 Well satisfied if he has accomplished..even one third of the ground over which he has accepted my hurried manuduction. 1896Gladstone Stud. Subsid. Butler 88 The insight of anticipation which, without a manuduction (if the term may be allowed) by natural science, enabled him to forecast [etc.].
2. Means or instrument of guidance; a guide or introduction.
1624F. White Repl. Fisher 586 He ascribeth no more vnto it, than to be a manuduction and guider to sauing veritie. 1625T. James (title) A manuduction or introduction unto divinitie. 1713Nelson Life Bp. Bull xvii. (1827) 84 He sent it [his book] abroad..that it might serve as a manuduction to the candidates of divinity.
†3. A manual process or operation. Obs. rare—1.
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. Contents iv. ii, The various Manuductions used in dressing of Copper and Lead Ores. |