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ˈhandˌmaiden
[f. hand n. + maiden: see prec.]
= handmaid. a. lit. (archaic).
a1300E.E. Psalter cxxii. 2 Als eghen of hand-maiden klene, In hende of hir levedy bene. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxi. 10 Throw out this handmayden and the sone of hir. 1483Cath. Angl. 173/2 An Handemayden, abra, ancilla. 1611Bible Luke i. 48 He hath regarded the lowe estate of his handmaiden. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 353 Who filled an equivocal post in the household, half handmaiden and half companion. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 330 During several generations..the relation between divines and handmaidens was a theme for endless jest.
b. fig.
1581Mulcaster Positions xli. (1887) 243 To haue the handmaiden sciences to attend vpon their mistres profession. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 28 Health and temperance..are the handmaidens of virtue.
So handman dial., manservant, serving-man.
1754J. Shebbeare Matrimony (1766) I. 245 She..went to Bed to the Handman. |