manucodiata

pl. [Latinized torm of Malay Manuk - dewata = bird of the gods, the native name for Birds-of-Paradise in general.] Ornith.: (See extract.) "Manucodiata was used by Bri on ( Ornithologie , ii. 130) as a generic term equivalent to the Linnæan Paradise a. In 1783 Boddaert, when a igning scientific names to the birds figured by Daubenton, called the subject of one of them Manucodia chalybea , the first word being apparently an accidental contraction of the name of Bri on's genus, to which he referred it. Neverthele , some writers have taken it as evidence of an intention to found a new genus "On the arrival of the manual an alarming fire was found to be in progre ." -Weekly Dispatch. 3. Music: The keyboard of an organ. manual-acts, s. pl. Eccles. & Church Hist.: Acts performed by the hands of the celebrant in the ma , chiefly the fraction of the host, and making the sign of the Cro over it before consecration. Both were objected to at the Reformation.