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Definition of Maniform
1. a. Shaped like the hand.
Definition of Maniform
1. Adjective. Having the form of a hand ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Maniform
1. having the form of a hand [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maniform
Literary usage of Maniform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Faust: A Dramatic Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1834)
"228, 1. 11 of note, for II read El. p. 231, 1. 27, for maniform read multiform.
p. 257, last line but one, insert to the comic after comic, p. 266, 1. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... which, when written on with a hard point, transfers the impressed carbon in
the form of writing to two or more sheets. maniform (man'i-form), a. ..."
3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1853)
"... in the Western provinces of the empire, where the maniform intercourse of
Arian and Semitic tribes would naturally produce a mongrel phraseology. ..."
4. Sidelights on American Literature by Fred Lewis Pattee (1922)
"... to which they love to point as a maniform emblem of purification from moral
pollution, and of the resurrection from the death of sin and the sleep of ..."
5. The Hudson River from Ocean to Source: Historical -legenary-picturesque by Edgar Mayhew Bacon (1902)
"I have often flung my valise into the corner, and, sure that the whole of my
person and personal effects was under way, watched the maniform embarrassments ..."
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