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/mənˌɪpjəlˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Manipulation n.

The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art. "Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind."

The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.

Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.

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Etymology of 'Manipulation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Manipulation" Quotes from Famous Books

... should be exercised to avoid corrupt servants and associates. Every servant not known to be pure should be suspected until proof of innocence has been established. They should be especially instructed of the evil arising from manipulation of the genitals even in infants, as they may do immense ...

— Plain Facts for Old and Young • John Harvey Kellogg

... assert that this is what happens, for I know nothing about it. All I maintain is that there is no hypothesis which will satisfactorily explain all the facts, unless you admit the general principle that the syce derives advantage of some kind from the manipulation of the smallest copper coin. One notable phenomenon which this principle helps to explain is the syce's anxiety to have his horse shod on the due date every month. If the shoes are put on so atrociously that they stick for more than a month, I suspect he considers ...

— Behind the Bungalow • EHA

... were not to be broken through; to revive the lost art of the Roman retiarius, who from a safe distance threw his net over his adversary, before attacking with the dagger; this was Ratcliffe's intention and towards this he had been directing all his manipulation for weeks past. How much bargaining and how many promises he found it necessary to make, was known to himself alone. About this time Mrs. Lee was a little surprised to find Mr. Gore speaking with entire confidence of having ...

— Democracy An American Novel • Henry Adams

... ostrich—by the gauchos called "avertruz"—to the croup of his recado; where, after a rapid manipulation of cords, the bird is made fast, beyond all danger ...

— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid

... in very German-English, helping out the sense now and again, where his vocabulary failed him, by waving his rather dirty and chemical-stained hands demonstratively about him. His nails were a sight, but his fingers, I must say, had the delicate shape of a man's accustomed to minute manipulation. He plunged at once into the thick of the matter, telling us briefly in his equally thick accent that he "now brobosed by his new brocess to make for us some goot and ...

— An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay • Grant Allen

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