manuary
manuary adjective: manual; involving (skills using) the hands.
Adjective
manuary (not comparable)
- Manual; involving (skills using) the hands.
- manuary trades
- And as on the one side the Cochin-Chinois haue no wrought Stuffes nor Manufactures, because they doe not apply themselues to Manuary trades, by reason of that idlenesse into which their plenty hath plunged them: and that on the other side they are easily inueigled with the curiosities comming from...1633, Christoforo Borri, translated by Robert Ashley, Cochin-China
Noun
manuary (plural manuaries)
- An artificer, a craftsman.
- The common is deuided into marchauntes and manuaries generally, vvhat partition ſoeuer is the ſubdiuident. Marchandize containeth vnder it all thoſe vvhich liue any vvay by buying or ſelling: Manuarie thoſe vvhoſe handyvvorke is their vvare, and labour their liuing.1581, Richard Mulcaster, “Of the Training Vp of Yong Gentlemen. […] What It is to be a Nobleman, or a Gentleman. […]”, in Positions wherin Those Primitive Circvmstances be Examined, which are...
- That there was a short go in his first draught seemes not very probable, for what likenesse is there betweene go and sed that his Manuary or printer should take the one for the other?1615, Edward Hoby, A curry-combe for a coxe-combe. Or Purgatories knell, page 79
Forms of manuary
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Origin of manuary
Borrowed from Latin manuārius.
Questions about manuary
- What does manuary mean?
- Manuary means manual; involving (skills using) the hands.
- What part of speech is manuary?
- Manuary can be an adjective or a noun.
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