Meaning

3 senses
  1. A person who favours manualism over oralism in teaching language to the deaf.

  2. A musical performer who makes music by squeezing air through the hands.

    The audience could not contain their laughter while the manualist played on.

  3. One who supports the idea of producing manuals, or instruction books, to train the Roman Catholic clergy.

Forms

plural: manualists
Singularmanualist
Pluralmanualists

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedmanualism

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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