manualism
English
noun
Definitions
- A philosophy of education for the deaf, emphasizing visual sign language using the hands.
- The art of playing music by squeezing air through the hands.
- (Christianity) The practice of producing manuals, or instruction books, to train the Roman Catholic clergy.
Etymology
Suffix from English manual (handbook).
Origin
English
manual
Gloss
handbook
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bimanual English
- brachiomanual English
- dextromanual English
- intermanual English
- mandraulic English
- manual English
- manualette English
- manualise English
- manualist English
- manualize English
- manually English
- nonmanual English
- oculomanual English
- oromanual English
- semimanual English
- sinistromanual English
- unimanual English
- visuomanual English
- manualis Latin
- マニュアル Japanese
- manuel Old French
- manual Indonesian
- manuel xno