manualistn.

1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 18^v The chiefe inuention..resteth in the..architect, but the labour and woorking therof to the vulgar and common sort of mamalists [read manualists; tr. It. manuali artifici] and seruants to the architect.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Manualist, a Handicrafts-man, or Artificer.

1854 H. Hughes Treat. Sociol. 281 Every man should be either a mentalist or a manualist.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 104/1 When I [sc. a juggler] was in Ireland they called me a ‘manulist’ [or read manualist].

1929 Amer. Econ. Rev. 19 132 The typical manualist is aware of his lack of native capacity for availing himself of economic opportunities as they lie amidst the complex and ever shifting situations of modern business.

1968 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 33 831 Japan is the only advanced country where a basic principle of union structure has both white-collar workers and manualists in the same basic or unit union.

1998 Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Nexis) 19 Nov. c4 ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ goes to Atlanta for a broadcast featuring humorist Roy Blount Jr. and manualist (someone who plays ‘music’ by blowing air through his hands) John Twomey, at 5 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday on KUOW-FM.

1883 Amer. 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.

1902 Webster's Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Manualist, one who uses or advocates the use of the manual method of teaching the deaf.

1982 Amer. Speech 57 215 Some comparisons between the manualists and the oralists would be of interest to the reader.

1997 Daily Tel. 26 June 18/3 Another issue is the debate over the best method of educating deaf children—the ‘manualist’ approach, which uses sign language, and the ‘oralist’ school, which advocates lip-reading and development of speech.

1897 Dublin Rev. July 227 It is apparently the fashion at the present time to despise manuals and manualists.

1950 Speculum 25 272 The conservatism of the manualist shows..in Canon Hervé's treatment of the necessity of membership in the visible church for salvation.

1973 B. J. F. Lonergan Philos. of God ii. 32 It is the development of modern hermeneutics and history that has forced Catholic theology out of the manualist tradition.

1998 Commonweal (Nexis) 27 Mar. 27 Little has been said historically in the magisterium about the Resurrection... Until recently the topic, among scholastic manualists at least, was largely apologetic.