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▪ I. mansion, n.|ˈmænʃən|
Forms: 4–5 mansioun, 4–7 mansyon, (4 mansyun, 5 mansyowne, manson, 6 mansyone), 4–5 mancioun, (moncion), 4–6 mancion, mancyon, (5 mencion), 6 mantioun, manchion, 6, 8 mantion, 5–6 mansione, 4– mansion.
[a. OF. mansion (13th c.), now only in certain technical senses (see 4 and 5 below), ad. L. mansiōn-em, n. of action f. manēre to remain, dwell. Cf. Sp. mansion, Pg. mansão, It. mansione.
The regular representative of the L. word in Fr. is maison house (= Pr. maisó-s); the It. magione and the OSp. mayson house, mod.Sp. meson inn, are adopted from Fr.]
†1. The action of remaining, abiding, dwelling, or staying in a place. Phr. to have, keep, make, take (one's) mansion = to dwell, abide. Also, permanence or continuance in a position or state.
a1340Hampole Psalter v. 8 Þai entire in till godis house of heuen, and takis þaire ioy and þaire mansyon eftire þaire perfeccioun. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiv. 216 Pryde in ricchesse regneth rather þan in pouerte, Arst in þe Maister þan in þe man some mansioun he hath. c1400Rom. Rose 4908 If he there make his mansioun For to abyde professioun. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1461 In his name, lord, I beseche þe, with-In þi lond to have my mancyon. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Commm. 340 The other [chappell], and the fore⁓said Haulles, the Cardinals have theyr mansion. 1576Gascoigne Steele Glas G iv, That malice make, no mansion in their minds. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. vii. §7 That the solidness of the earth is for the station and mansion of living creatures. 1607Shakes. Timon v. i. 218 Timon hath made his euerlasting Mansion Vpon the Beached Verge of the salt Flood. c1611Chapman Iliad iii. Comm. 48 Who euer saw true learning, wisdome, or wit, vouchsafe mansion in any proud, vaineglorious, and braggartly spirit. 1637H. Sydenham Serm. ii. 35 Sitting presupposes stabilitie and mansion. 1667Denham On Cowley 14 These poets near our Princes sleep, And in one grave their mansion keep. 1677Gale Crt. Gentiles iv. 280 We have not a word which properly signifies the stable mansion of Eternitie. 1696Tate & Brady Ps. cxliii. 3 To Darkness chas'd and forc'd to seek A Mansion with the dead. 1710Steele Tatler No. 182 ⁋1 The Visages of those in whom Love, Rage, Anger, Jealousy or Envy, have their frequent Mansions. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. ix. 212 The soul..must be freed from the laws of bodies, and fall under some other, which will carry it to some proper mansion, or state.
2. a. A place where one stays or dwells; a place of abode, an abiding-place. Now arch.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1116 The grete temple of Mars in Trace Ther as Mars hath his souereyn mansion. c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 2089 The triumphall guerdoun That God reserueth to euery creature, aboue in hys celestiall mansioun. 1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 96 Thow sall behald him, and his mantioun Be brocht to nocht. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. iii. 41. 1612 M. Lok P. Martyr's Hist. W. Indies in Hakluyt (1812) V. 167 Colonies or mansions of the Spaniardes. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 41 This incomparable mansion [sc. Venice] is the only Paragon of all Cities in the World. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 296 Thy Mansion wants thee, Adam, rise. 1725Pope Odyss. v. 85 On whose high branches, waving with the storm, The birds of broadest wing their mansion form. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 167 Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansion tread. 1774― Nat. Hist. (1776) IV. 30 It sometimes happens that its little mansion [sc. the squirrel's nest] is attacked by a deadly and powerful foe. 1777Howard Prisons Eng. (1780) 25 That the penitent should..be driven again..to the practice which soon brings him back to his former mansion. 1871R. Ellis tr. Catullus lxviii. 34 Rome is alone my life's centre, a mansion of home.
†b. (Chiefly pl.) A separate dwelling-place, lodging, or apartment in a large house or enclosure.
c1400Mandeville (1839) v. 41 And thoughe it be clept the Tour of Babiloyne, ȝit natheles there were ordeyned with inne many Mansiouns and many gret duellynge Places. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) I. 113 The kynges palice, with mansiones for his men. Ibid. II. 235 And also mansiones and other chambres [in Noah's Ark]. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 33 They came to a low cotage..hauing in it two mansions, in one of ye which were women and children and in the other only men. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iv. xiii. (1715) 310 Grecian Houses were usually divided into two Parts, in which the Men and women had distinct Mansions assign'd.
c. transf. and fig.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame ii. 246 Thus euery thinge by thys reason Hath his propre mansyon To which [it] seketh to repaire. 1555Eden Decades 265 This sea at certeyne tymes of the yeare..dryueth furth his increase to seke newe mansions. 1687Dryden Hind & P. ii. 71 Suppose..The certain mansion were not yet assigned: The doubtful residence no proof can bring Against the plain existence of the thing. 1777Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 29 Oct., Oxford, the mansion of the liberal arts. 1798Wordsw. Tintern Abbey 140 When thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Old & New Schoolm., My head has not many mansions, nor spacious.
d. Used in pl. to translate Gr. µοναί, Vulg. mansiones, in John xiv. 2. Hence allusively.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxlix. 5 Þai sall be fayn in þaire dennys, þat is, in sere mansyuns of heuen. 1526Tindale John xiv. 2 In my fathers housse are many mansions. a1805Paley Serm. xxxv. (1810) 526 In the habitations of life are many mansions; rewards of various orders and degrees, proportioned to our various degrees of virtue and exertion here. 1845E. Fitzball Maritana ii. 16 Oh! that angels now might waft him To the mansions of the blest!
e. Used in pl. for the abodes of Hell.
1629Milton Nativ. 140 Hell it self will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 691 Th' Infernal Mansions nodding seem to dance [orig. Quin ipsæ stupuere domus, etc.].
3. A structure or edifice serving as a dwelling or lodging place.
†a. gen. A house, tent, etc. Obs.
a1340Hampole Psalter xiv. 1 Tabernakile propirly is þe mansyon of feghtand men and passand. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy ii. xi, Euery paleys and euery mansyowne Of marbell were. 1444Hen. VI in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 340 A mansion or hospicium..called Saynt Johanes Hostel. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 9 §2 Every mese and mancion or dwelling place within the lordship. 1509Brasenose Coll. Munim., Wycombe M. 16 One Tenement or Mansion called the Lyon. a1548Hall Chron., Rich. III 28 b, With pitefull scriches she repleneshyd the hole mancion. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. iii. (1655) 35 We usually call the Mansions which are here [Heb. xi. 9] stiled, ‘Tabernacles’, Tents. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 140 The village preacher's modest mansion. 1781Cowper Let. to Unwin 25 Aug., The building we inhabit consists of two mansions.
b. In early use: The chief residence of a lord; the ‘capital messuage’ of a manor, a manor-house. Hence, in later use, a large and stately residence.
a1512Fabyan Will in Chron. (1811) Pref. 3 If it happen me to decesse at my mansion called Halstedys. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 2614 Whiche place somtyme was the kynges mansyon, Translated to an abbay by her commaundyment. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iii. ii. 351 The Case of a Treble Hoeboy was a Mansion for him: a Court. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §41 (1810) 44 A fair dwelling house, which he maketh his mansion. 1641Termes de la Ley 199 Mansion (Mansio) is in our law most commonly taken for the chief messuage..of the Lord of a Mannor, the Mannor house where he doth most remain. 1807Wordsw. Wh. Doe vii. 25 The lordly Mansion of its pride Is stripped. 1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. III. 159 The Quirinal Mount..contains on its summits and skirts several of the most magnificent Roman mansions. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 364 At length the weary fugitives came in sight of Weems Castle. The proprietor of the mansion was a friend to the new government. 1865Dublin Univ. Mag. I. 24 The fussy mistress of the ‘mansion’..as in Brighton they call a lodging house. 1866M. Arnold Thyrsis i, The village street its haunted mansion lacks. 1893Westm. Gaz. 27 Oct. 1/1 What are called mansions—a mansion is a house with a back staircase—are a drug in the market.
c. The residence provided for an ecclesiastic.
1451Rolls of Parlt. V. 221/2 Which Houses the Deans of the seide Chapell nave hadd for theire mansion. 1559Queen's Injunct. B, All..Parsons, Vicars, & Clarkes, hauing Churches, chappels, or Mansions within this Deanrie.
d. fig. (e.g. of the body as enclosing the soul).
1526Tindale 2 Cor. v. 1 Oure erthy mancion wherin we now dwell. Ibid. 2 Desyringe to be clothed with oure mansion which is from heven. 1596Edw. III, ii. ii, Shall the large limit of fair Britany By me be overthrown, and shall I not Master this little mansion of myself. 1611Shakes. Cymb. iii. iv. 70 The innocent Mansion of my Loue (my Heart). 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 296, I neuer saw a braue spirit part more mildly from the old mansion, then his did.
e. Used in pl. as the designation of the large buildings, divided into ‘flats’, which began to be erected in London about 1860.
1876A. Trollope Prime Minister II. iv. 67 He had been to look at a flat,—a set of rooms,—in the Belgrave Mansions, in Pimlico. 1892A. W. Pinero Magistrate ii. 105 Messiter. Where at, sir? Vale. Albert Mansions, Victoria Street. 1901Daily Chron. 17 June 5/2 The inhabitants of Cornwall Mansions, finding that the word is now applied to less than ultra-select blocks of residences, have petitioned the Kensington Council to change the name to Cornwall-place. 1955Times 15 July 10/3 The process happens more often in the case of a mews, a yard, or a court, and is almost frequent in the case of a ‘mansions’. 1972Mainichi Daily News (Japan) 7 Nov. 6/6 The earnings of the real estate division, including those obtained through sales of mansions (high class apartments) and lots for villas, will increase by 33 per cent.
†4. A halting-place in a journey; the distance between two halting-places; a stage. Obs.
1382Wyclif Exod. xvii. 1 Thanne goon forth al the multitude of the sones of Yrael fro the desert of Syn, bi her mansiouns [Vulg. per mansiones suas]. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 77/2 The fyrst mansion that they made was by the ryuer of tygre. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage iii. i. 191 Eight mansions from thence is the Region of Frankincense. 1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. (1634) 222 From Marah he removed to Elim, the sixth Mansion, a march of eight miles. 1737Whiston Josephus, Antiq. xvi. ix. §2 Herod..in three days time marched seven mansions [Gr. σταθµούς].
5. Astrol.
a. = house n.1 8.
b. Each of the twenty-eight divisions of the ecliptic, which are occupied by the moon on successive days.
c1386Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 42 Phebus the sonne..was..in his mansion In Aries. ― Frankl. T. 402 The eighte and twenty mansions That longen to the moone. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas vii. iv. (1494) B ij, Jupiter..within the fissh helde tho his mancion. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xviii. (Percy Soc.) 77 Dyane..Entred the Crab, her propre mancyon. 1552Lyndesay Monarche 6120 Als cleir As flammand Phebus in his Mantioun. 1690Leybourn Curs. Math. 385 The dividing of the Heavens into XII. Mansions or Houses. 1879Proctor in Contemp. Rev. June 419 The Chaldæan astronomy has not the twenty-eight lunar mansions.
†6. Formerly used Hist. to render med.L. mansa, mansus a hide of land: see manse n. 2. Obs.
c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 8329 Fyften mansyons in lyndesay He gaf to him and his for ay. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 564 He gaue a certayne mansyon To the prouynce of Lyndesy. 1647N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. i. xi. (1739) 19 Yet could not the Tenth Hide, Tenth Mansion, or Tenth part of the Kingdom be granted. 1809Bawdwen Domesday Bk. 331 Three mansions, in which are situate eleven houses yielding four shillings and seven-pence.
7. attrib., as † mansion-globe; † mansion-seat, a place of abode, dwelling-place; also, the chief residence of a landed proprietor. Also mansion-house, mansion-place.
1618Bolton tr. Florus (1636) 41 The City which the Fates ordained to be the mansion Seat of men, and gods. 1711Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. 373 Yet is this mansion-globe, this man-container, of a much narrower compass even than other its fellow-wanderers of our system. 1751Chesterfield Lett. (1792) III. 224 A certain district of ground immediately contiguous to the mansion seat of a family. 1771E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton III. 201 Castle W—..the mansion-seat where my father then resided.
▪ II. † ˈmansion, v. Obs. rare.
[f. prec. n.]
intr. To dwell, reside.
a1638Mede Par. Peter (1642) 16 Visible as the clouds of heaven,..and other meteors; as also the rest of the creatures mansioning therein. a1711Ken Christophil Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 430 Love, when Faith sees my Jesus near, Will say, 'Tis good to mansion here. |