manipulatorn.

1816 Times 8 Jan. 3/3 Raymond Mandou..[acted] as the manipulator of the said Rance during her magnetical visions.

1864 Morning Star 8 June 4 By the judicious application of patronage to an editorial staff a clever manipulator may gain for himself a character to which he has no title [etc.].

1891 E. Peacock Narcissa Brendon I. 285 A principal manipulator of the persecution company.

1966 R. A. Heinlein Moon is Harsh Mistress (1967) 201 Out of those eleven billion people perhaps seven billion lived where polygamy is legal, and Stu's opinion manipulators played up ‘persecution’.

1981 W. H. Hallahan Trade ii. 41 They were the perfect team, the tough street man and the elegant boardroom manipulator.

1995 Time 20 Nov. 82/1 Within political circles he has a reputation as a slippery manipulator who will make promises in return for support but will not always keep them.

1823 Times 31 Dec. 3/1 Since I am the son of a baker..tell me the particular manipulator of flour to whom I owe my being?

1858 J. Ruskin Arrows of Chace (1880) I. 140 As manipulators, none but the four men whom I have named..were equal to Turner.

1864 Social Sci. Rev. 8 Science is nothing without experiment and a little practice will soon enable the teacher to become a successful manipulator.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 69 An experienced surgical manipulator.

1902 J. S. Phillimore Sophocles Introd. 79 As a manipulator of language we compare him [sc. Sophocles] with Virgil.

1958 Oxf. Mag. 6 Feb. 250/2 And yet the puppet in itself is nothing—it exists only in terms of the manipulator who gives it personality and life.

1993 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 11 May b4/1 Lazorik is one of the original modernist photographic manipulators.

1888 Economist 17 Nov. 3/3 If the people are apathetic it is utterly useless for the manipulators to undertake to push prices up.

1903 S. S. Pratt Work of Wall St. 146 A professional may or may not be a manipulator, but a manipulator is always a professional.

1903 S. S. Pratt Work of Wall St. 256 By false tips and matched orders or wash sales the manipulators endeavored to establish fictitious quotations for their stocks.

1904 N.Y. Tribune 15 May 4 Manipulators desperately endeavoring to bring back recessions which will permit them to ‘get even’.

1927 Amer. Mercury Nov. 353/1 The grain market manipulators do juggle prices to their disadvantage.

1991 World Monitor Nov. 64/2 The stock market crash of '87, the downfall of high-profile money manipulators,..and current sluggish economy are all powerful stimuli to save and invest.

1860 G. B. Prescott Electr. Telegr. vi. 97 Fig. 48 is an instrument for bringing any number of batteries into circuit at pleasure...It is called a manipulator.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 580/1 Manipulator, an intermediate contrivance for handling plates without exposing the hands to injury.

1888 Sci. Amer. 15 Sept. 166/2 An improved ingot manipulator.

1971 Sci. News 21 Aug. 118/2 Manipulators, walking machines, artificial limbs..—cybernetic machines that perform as appendages of man.

1991 Process Engin. Aug. 49/4 Genflo now offers a range of standard manipulators to hold the cutting heads.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1384/1 Manipulator, the transmitting instrument attached to the dial telegraph.

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 580/1 Manipulator, a machine for shampooing or pummeling the body.

1886–7 L. D. Richards Proc. Amer. Instr. Deaf 235 I use the manipulator very little.

1952 Nucleonics Nov. 41/1 They have been named master-slave manipulators because all the seven degrees of freedom of the tongs are slaved to the single master handle.

1955 Reactor Handbk.: Engin. (U.S. Atomic Energy Comm.) 859 A general-purpose manipulator is considered to be a remotely-controlled mechanical arm capable of gripping diverse objects... All movements of the manipulator arm are controlled by a human operator.

1969 IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci. 16 594/2 The geometry of the Brookhaven AGS and of other synchrotrons requires a larger degree of remoteness than is possible with mechanically-connected master-slave manipulators.

1991 Nucl. Energy June 159/1 The dished ends were mounted on a manipulator which..also carried an electrical preheating furnace.

1968 IEEE Trans. Automatic Control 13 697/1 An experimental automatic manipulator has been designed and constructed..and..target approach and grasping have been demonstrated.

1976 C. Cussler Raise Titanic! (1977) xxiv. 126 It was the control unit for the manipulator, a four-hundred-pound mechanical arm.

1992 A. Steele Labyrinth of Night 194 At the frontmost part of the cab, below the forward hatch and next to the swivel-mounted IR scanner, was a multijointed claw-fingered manipulator.

1993 Legion May 15/3 There was a proliferation of Canadian space projects in the mid-1980s, including the successful Canadarm, a robotic manipulator arm used to deploy payloads from the cargo bay of NASA shuttle spacecraft.