dactylology

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To the general public, dactylology or finger spelling is the sign-language, or the basis of that language, but to the profession there is no relation between the two methods of communication.

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  1. noun The use of the fingers and hands to communicate and convey ideas, as in the manual alphabet used by hearing-impaired and speech-impaired people.

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  • What advantage is there, not found in the prevailing methods of communication with the deaf, i.e., by gestures, dactylology, speech and speech-reading, and writing I. The language of gestures, first systematized and applied to the conveying of ideas to the deaf by the Abbe de l'Epee during the latter part of the last century, has been, in America, so developed and improved upon by Gallaudet, Peet, and their successors, as to leave but little else to be desired for the purpose for which it was intended. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
  • To the general public, dactylology or finger spelling is the sign-language, or the basis of that language, but to the profession there is no relation between the two methods of communication. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
  • Signs, dactylology, speech reading, and the written and printed word are all dependent upon the eye for their value as educational instruments. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886
  • They pressed hands at parting, firmly and briefly, not for the ordinary dactylology of lovers, but in sign of the treaty of amity. —  Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4
  • It happened that the doctor, who knew everything, was well acquainted with dactylology and the latest sign language, used in the instruction of deaf mutes, and as it seemed likely that our stay in our present abode might be —  Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World
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  1. from Greek δάκτυλος, finger, + λογία, from λέγειν, speak: see -ology.
 

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