manuary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin manuārius.

Adjective

manuary (not comparable)

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

   manuary trades

   • 1633, Christoforo Borri, translated by Robert Ashley, Cochin-China:

     And as on the one side the Cochin-Chinois haue no wrought Stuffes nor Manufactures, because they doe not apply themselues to Manuary trades, by reason of that idlenesse into which their plenty hath plunged them: and that on the other side they are easily inueigled with the curiosities comming from other places […] such as Combes, Needles, Bracelets, Beades of glasse to hang in their eares, and such other trifles and womanish curiosities.

Noun

manuary (plural manuaries)

1. (obsolete) A craftsman, artificer.
   • 1581, Richard Mulcaster, Positions vvherin those primitiue circumstances be examined, which are necessarie for the training vp of children, either for skill in their booke, or health in their bodie, page 198:

     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.

   • 1615, Edward Hoby, A curry-combe for a coxe-combe. Or Purgatories knell, page 79:

     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?

   • 2018, By Laurie Ellinghausen, Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667, Taylor & Francis:

     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 […]

References

• “manuary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Mauryan