manuduction

English edit

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

manuduction (countable and uncountable, plural manuductions)

(obsolete) The act of guiding or a means of guidance; direction, guidance, instruction. [16th–19th c.]
- 1646, Thomas Browne, “To the Reader”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica‎^[1], 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^[2], 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.