Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A musical performer who makes music by squeezing air through the hands
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. One who works with the hands; an artificer.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An artificer; a workman.
- n. One who teaches the deaf and dumb by means of the manual alphabet or method.
Etymologies
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Examples
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But is the problem that a manualist Thomism has been displaced by narrative, feminist, liberationist, and other inductive theologies?
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He then brought the manualist theories back to America, eventually establishing the first free public school for the deaf in the United States now the American School for the Deaf in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Although Bell felt that the case had clearly been made for the oralist viewpoint, Gallaudet remained unconvinced and continued to be an advocate of the manualist tradition.
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To put it simply, Bell felt that the manualist view was wrong because of a dog.
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By labour, I mean the poor manualist, whom we properly call the labouring man, who works for himself indeed in one respect, but sometimes serves and works for wages, as a servant, or workman.
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This video shows a manualist, basically someone who plays tunes with their hands, performing the
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The school became a manualist environment, and de l’Epe soon came to believe that sign language was the natural way deaf people communicated their ideas.
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"manualist plays linus and lucy (peanuts theme) on his hands!"
skipvia commented on the word manualist
See manualism.
November 2, 2007