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manurance|məˈnjʊərəns|
Also 5 menurance, mannerance, 6 manuraunce.
[f. manure v. + -ance.]
1. Tenure, occupation (of land or other property); control, management. Now only in Law.
1468Paston Lett. II. 331 Dischargyng hym utterly of the menurance, occupacion, and receyt of the revenuez. 1468Rolls of Parlt. VI. 231/2 Accions for th' occupacion and mannerance of any of the seid premisses. 1538Fitzherb. Just. Peas 116 b, Meses landes or tenementes in theyr owne manuraunce and occupacion. 1604Suppl. Masse Priests i. B 3, How can they delight in peace and order and good manurance of the countrey? 1726Ayliffe Parergon 508 So long as the land continued in the Manurance of the Religious Persons themselves.
2. † Cultivation (of land), tillage (obs.); manuring.
1572J. Jones Bathes Buckstone Ded. 2 Men liuing on the fruits of the Earth, without any manurance, as beasts. c1630Risdon Surv. Devon §1 (1810) 15 It is subject to thorns and briers, (if manurance did not prevent it). 1760Burn Eccles. Law (1797) III. 210 [To] buy and sell corn and cattle for the only manurance, tillage, and pasturage of such farms. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. App. v. 1240 The Prædial Tithes are such as arise from the land spontaneously or by manurance. 1854Thoreau Walden vii. (1863) 177 See if they will not grow in this soil even with less toil and manurance.
†b. fig. Cultivation or training (of the character or faculties). Obs.
1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits xiv. 242 The Turks..caused the Vniuersitie of Athens to passe vnto Paris... And (thus through want of manurance) so many gallant wits..are vtterly perished. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xix. §2 The culture and manurance of minds in youth hath such a forcible..operacion, as [etc.]. 1615J. Dyke Myst. Self-deceit 46 We should be loath to trust a Beare or Wolfe..though by culture and manurance in their youth, their inborne fiercenesse be somewhat mitigated. |