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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

... contained (or at least a caricature of them) had been in circulation for many years following its initial publication in Italy in 1531. These were often treated with profound suspicion by the English who saw the advocacy of the use of manipulation and deception in order to maintain power as being the idea of a disreputable foreign country. Indeed, Machiavelli was seen as a satanic figure who was known as 'Old Nick', a still-used reference to ...

— The Noble Spanish Soldier • Thomas Dekker

... the creation of a work of art, the designing of a work of engineering, the invention of a new machine, or the organization of a new government. The distinction between the two lines of activity is that exploration seeks what is there, and manipulation changes it to something else. Exploration seeks the facts as they exist, while invention modifies or rearranges the facts. The two enterprises go hand in hand, however, since facts must be known to be manipulated, ...

— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth

... conducted by a cheerful young man, each of which is just on the safe side of a State's prison offense. As "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford," it is probably the most amusing expose of money manipulation ever seen on ...

— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.

... action which might arise as the result of ill-feeling, the alternative vote would afford an opportunity for a predetermined policy on the part of a minority to create dissension between the opponents. The manipulation of the alternative vote would be easily understood. An angry minority of electors could be instructed beforehand to use it, as we know from experience they have used the second ballot on the Continent. Would politicians, following an exclusive electoral policy, hesitate ...

— Proportional Representation - A Study in Methods of Election • John H. Humphreys

... in so artistic a way, that, after watching the process hour by hour, one is almost involuntarily possessed by the notion, that some more subtle aid to vision than an achromatic, would show the hidden artist, with his plan before him, striving with skilful manipulation to ...

— The Origin of Species - From 'The Westminster Review', April 1860 • Thomas H. Huxley

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