Meanings
plural manuductions
- countableobsoleteuncountableThe act of guiding or a means of guidance; direction, guidance, instruction.First known use 16th–19th c.
We hope it will not be unconsidered, that we finde no open tract, or constant manuduction in this Labyrinth; but are oft-times fain to wander in the America and untravelled parts of Truth.
1646, Thomas Browne, “To the Reader”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 16501 more example
That the Aristotelian Physiology cannot boast it self the proper Author of any one Invention; is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency: And ’twould puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable discovery, made by the direct, sole manuduction of Peripatetick Principles.
1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 21, in John Owen, editor, Scepsis Scientifica, London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., published 1885, page 154
Origin
- Latinmanus“hand”
- Late Latinmanuductio
- Englishmanuduction
From Late Latin manuductio, from (ablative singular form of) Latin manus (“hand”) + ductiō (“leading”).
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