Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An order of Mammalia, including man alone, established by Blumenbach, and retained by Cuvier and most naturalists until quite recently.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) Animals having two hands; -- a term applied by Cuvier to man as a special order of
Mammalia .
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Examples
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As to the health of the members of the colony, bipeds or bimana, quadrumana or quadrupeds, it left nothing to be desired.
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As to the health of the members of the colony, bipeds or bimana, quadrumana or quadrupeds, it left nothing to be desired.
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So that we may now be said to have arrived at the zoological forms not long antecedent to the appearance of the chief of all, bimana, or man, and shall here pause to consider the conclusions of the author of the _Vestiges of Creation_ on the origin of the organic existences that have been successively exhibited.
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The _bimana_ are animals having _two hands_; as man.
Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois Elmer W. Cavins
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To creatures which, while belonging to the zoological order bimana, and while differing from the ape by the formation of the skull and of the feet and by an erect walk, yet should have been from of old distinguished, both in their origin and also in their spiritually-inferior nature, from the so-called “nobler” race of the whites, we could not come into the same moral relation as to those who are our brethren.
Christian Ethics. Volume II.���Pure Ethics. 1819-1870 1873
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The lowest order of bimana, and the highest order of quadrumana may, under most favourable circumstances, bear issue and the "Mule," who would own half a soul, might prove most serviceable as a hewer of wood and a drawer of water, in fact as an agricultural labourer.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The difference between the height of the line 1 and the line 5 gives an idea of the difference of being the head type of the aves, (corvidae,) and the head type of the mammalia, (bimana;) a.b. c.d. 5, again, represent the five groups of the first order of the mammalia; a, being the organic structure of the highest simia, and 5, that of man.
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Robert Chambers 1836
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Now how is it possible, in this herd of bimana which we call a nation, to meet, on any but rare occasions, a man and a woman who possess in the same degree the genius of love, when men of talent are so thinly sown and so rare in all other sciences, in the pursuit of which the artist needs only to understand himself, in order to attain success?
Analytical Studies Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Plantes to classify them with the bimana; but our Physiology will never admit that women are to be found among them.
Analytical Studies Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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From among our fifteen millions of men we must cut off, in the first place, the nine millions of bimana of thirty-two vertebrae and exclude from our physiological analysis all but six millions of people.
Analytical Studies Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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