Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining or relating to manufactures: as, manufactural demand.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Of or pertaining to manufactures.

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  • adjective Of, or relating to, manufacture.

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Examples

  • All the world sees, or ought to see, that in a commercial, mechanical, manufactural, fiancial and literary point of view, we are as helpless as babes ....

    The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South 1921

  • All our commercial, mechanical, manufactural, and literary supplies come from there.

    The Romance of the Civil War 1903

  • In soil, in climate, in minerals, in water-power for manufactural purposes, and in area of territory, North Carolina has the advantage of New York, and, with the exception of slavery, no plausible reason can possibly be assigned why land should not be at least as valuable in the valley of the Yadkin as it is along the banks of the Genesee.

    The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It 1857

  • All our commercial, mechanical, manufactural, and literary supplies come from there.

    The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It 1857

  • Indeed there is nothing in the opinion of the Committee to prevent its development for the most perfect instruction in agricultural, manufactural & pharmacopeial Chemistry.

    Board of Visitors minutes 1853

  • There were also two prints of more modern date, one agricultural, one manufactural.

    It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

  • -- Professional liberty and the introduction of mechanism and manufactural industry have annihilated every warrant formerly afforded by the artificer as master and member of a city corporation, and, at the same time, every warrant afforded to him by the community of his being able to subsist by means of his industry.

    Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

  • Commerce, manufactural industry, and agriculture have been greatly promoted by the Customs '

    Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 Wolfgang Menzel 1835

  • This unlimited extent of manufactural industry affords a proof of the relative diminution of ths British population.

    The Situation of Great Britain, in the Year 1811 Maurice Montgaillard , comte de Maurice Montgaillard 1812

  • With the Industrial Revolution’s manufactural division of labor and mass production for a global market, the commodity finally became fully visible as a power that was colonizing all social life.

    Society of the Spectacle pt 2- Guy Debord (translated by Ken Knabb) 2009

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