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manualist|ˈmænjuːəlɪst|
[f. manual + -ist.]
1.
†a. One who works or labours with the hands (obs.).
b. (See quot. 1861.)
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 18 b, The chiefe inuention..resteth in the..architect, but the labour and working therof to the vulgar and common sort of mannalists [sic] and seruants to the architect. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Manualist, a Handicrafts-man, or Artificer. 1861Mayhew Lond. Labour III. 104 When I [a juggler] was in Ireland they called me a ‘manualist’.
2. ‘One who uses or advocates the use of the manual method of teaching the deaf’ (Webster 1902).
1883Amer. Ann. Deaf & Dumb Apr. 79 In the judgment of most manualists there can be no question that this fact alone, of prior speech, establishes such an important difference.
3. One who compiles a manual or handbook.
1897Dublin Rev. July 227 It is apparently the fashion at the present time to despise manuals and manualists. |