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English
Etymology
From Late Latin manuductio, from (ablative singular form of) Latin manus (“hand”) + ductiō (“leading”).
Noun
manuduction (countable and uncountable, plural manuductions)
- (obsolete) The act of guiding or a means of guidance; direction, guidance, instruction.
1646, Thomas Browne, “To the Reader”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650:We hope it will not be unconsidered, that we finde no open tract, or constant manuduction in this Labyrinth; but are oft-times fain to wander in the America and untravelled parts of Truth.
1665, Joseph Glanvill, chapter 21, in John Owen, editor, Scepsis Scientifica, London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., published 1885, page 154:That the Aristotelian Physiology cannot boast it self the proper Author of any one Invention; is prægnant evidence of its infecundous deficiency: And ’twould puzzle the Schools to point at any considerable discovery, made by the direct, sole manuduction of Peripatetick Principles.