manufactural

Updated: July 25, 2025

Commerce, manufactural industry, and agriculture have been greatly promoted by the Customs' Union, by government aid and model institutions, by the improvements in the post-offices, by the laying of roads and railways.

Wolfgang Menzel - Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4

Professional liberty and the introduction of mechanism and manufactural industry have annihilated every warrant formerly afforded by the artificer as master and member of a city corporation, and, at the same time, every warrant afforded to him by the community of his being able to subsist by means of his industry.

Wolfgang Menzel - Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4

There were two moral commonplaces, and there was the forbidden fruit-tree, whose branches diverged, at set distances like the radii of a circle, from its stem, a perpendicular line; exactly at the end of each branch hung one forbidden fruit pre-Raphaelite worsted-work. There were also two prints of more modern date, one agricultural, one manufactural.

Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend