manuary
nounEtymology Borrowed from Latin manuārius.
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Obsolete An artificer, a craftsman.
- The common is deuided into marchauntes and manuaries generally, vvhat partition ſoeuer is the ſubdiuident. Marchandize containeth vnder it all thoſe vvhich liue any vvay by buying or ſelling: Manuarie thoſe vvhoſe handyvvorke is their vvare, and labour their liuing.1581, Richard Mulcaster, “Of the Training Vp of Yong Gentlemen. […] What It is to be a Nobleman, or a Gentleman. […]”, in Positions wherin Those Primitive Circvmstances be Examined, which are Necessarie for the Training Vp of Children, either for Skill in Their Booke, or Health in Their Bodie. […], London: […] Thomas Vautrollier for Thomas Chare [i.e., Chard], →OCLC, page 198:
- 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?1615, Edward Hoby, A curry-combe for a coxe-combe. Or Purgatories knell, page 79:
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- 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. […] [T]he 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 […]2018, By Laurie Ellinghausen, Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667, Taylor & Francis: