单词 | dactylology |
释义 | dactylologyn. ‘Finger-speech’; the art of ‘speaking’ or communicating ideas by signs made with the fingers, as in the deaf-and-dumb alphabet. (Formerly chirology n.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > sign language hand language1625 arthrology1641 chirology1656 dactylology1656 finger-talk1656 finger language1669 hand alphabet1680 semiology1694 finger alphabet1751 finger talking1823 sign language1824 finger speech1826 indigitation1826 manual alphabet1876 dactylography1884 signing1891 American Sign Language1900 sign1930 British Sign Language1961 ASL1965 Ameslan1972 Yerkish1973 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Dactylogie..finger-talk, speech made with the fingers. 1680 G. Dalgarno Didascalocophus Introd. Cheirology, or dactylology..is interpretation by the transient motions of the fingers. 1860 Guardian 24 Oct. 927/1 The ceremony was performed in the finger language, or, as it is grandiloquently termed, dactylology. 1885 G. Meredith Diana of Crossways II. xii. 303 They pressed hands at parting..not for the ordinary dactylology of lovers, but in sign of the treaty of amity. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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