Manuary

Quick meaning: Manuary is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Manual; involving (skills using) the hands.

Meaning

(obsolete) Manual; involving (skills using) the hands.

More Meanings

1. (obsolete) A craftsman, artificer.

Example Sentences

manuary trades

That there was a short go in his first draught seemes not very probable, for what likenesse is there betweene go and sed that his Manuary or printer should take the one for the other?

The common is deuided into marchauntes and manuaries generally, what partition sooner is the subdiuident. Marchandize containeth vnder it all those which liue any way by buying or selling: Manuarie those whose handyworke is their ware, and labour their liuing.

I ask how we can make sense of the dissonance between two things: one, [Ben] Jonson's own non-aristocratic background and two, his own social ambition and disdain for laborers. […]the Parnassus plays describe him as the "merriest bricklayer" who ever put pen to paper. If his evident disdain for manuaries and commoners is any indication, the socially and poetically ambitious Jonson would have no doubt bristled at this description[…]

Word Forms

• manuaries

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