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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 608 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANUAL , i.e. belonging to the See also:

hand (See also:Lat. mantes), a word chiefly used to describe an occupation which employs the hands,' as opposed to that which chiefly or entirely employs the mind. Particular uses of the word are: " sign-manual, a See also:signature or autograph, especially one affixed to a See also:state document; " manual-exercise," in military usage, See also:drill in the handling of the See also:rifle; "manual See also:alphabet," the formation of the letters of the alphabet by the fingers of one or both hands for communication with the See also:deaf and dumb; and " manual acts," the breaking of the See also:bread, and the taking of the See also:cup in the hands by the officiating See also:priest in consecrating the elements during the celebration of the See also:Eucharist. The use of the word for tools and implements to be used by. the hand, as, distinct from machinery, only survives in the " manual See also:fire-See also:engine." From the See also:late Latin use of manuale as a substantive, meaning " handbook," conies the use of the word for a See also:book treating a subject in a concise way, but more particularly of a book of offices, containing the forms to be used in the See also:administration of the sacraments other than the See also:Mass, but including communion out of the Mass, also the forms for churching, burials, &c. In the See also:Roman See also:Church such a book is usually called a rituale, " manual " being the name given to it in the See also:English Church before the See also:Reformation. The See also:keyboard of an See also:organ, as played by the hands, is called the " manual," in distinction from the " pedal " keys played by the feet.

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