What Does Dactylology Mean?

the technique of communicating by signs made with the fingers, especially in the manual alphabets used by the deaf.

How do you use Dactylology in a sentence?

The abbé held that the old-fashioned dactylology was insufficient, and that signs were essential to those who could neither hear nor speak. Dactylology , see Manual alphabet . So long as this is true, dactylology can hardly claim to be more than one of the elements of a system of instruction for the deaf.

What does it mean to pacify someone?

: to cause (someone who is angry or upset) to become calm or quiet. : to cause or force (a country, a violent group of people, etc.) to become peaceful. See the full definition for pacify in the English Language Learners Dictionary.