manuduction

manuduction

English

Etymology

From Late Latin manuductio, from (ablative singular form of) Latin manus (“hand”) + ductiō (“leading”).

Noun

manuduction (countable and uncountable, plural manuductions)

1. (obsolete) The act of guiding or a means of guidance; direction, guidance, instruction. [16th–19th c.]
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, 1650, “To the Reader,”

     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, Scepsis Scientifica, edited by John Owen, London: Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1885, Chapter 21, p. 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.