Crossword-Solution: DACTYLOLOGY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dactylology | n. | The art of communicating ideas by certain movements and positions of the fingers; -- a method of conversing practiced by the deaf and dumb. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Sign language with hands used by deaf and dumb people | 1 answer |
| the study of sign language | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETEAR
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greedy person
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Sentences with DACTYLOLOGY (5)
They pressed hands at parting, firmly and briefly, not for the ordinary dactylology of lovers, but in sign of the treaty of amity.
Its advocates tell us that when these results shall have been made known, and the attention of the philanthropist and man of science shall have been directed to them, the days of the old system of dactylology, or communication by the aid of fingers, will be numbered.
The abbé held that the old-fashioned dactylology was insufficient, and that signs were essential to those who could neither hear nor speak.
Berthier cautions people against the common mistake of confounding it with dactylology, or the language of the fingers.
Dactylology is confined to the servile reproduction of the letters of the alphabet of any particular language, one by one, syllable by syllable, word by word, or in no matter what other conventional manner.