单词 | mansion |
释义 | mansionn. I. A large house or other building; a dwelling place, a stopping place. 1. a. Originally: the chief residence of a lord, the capital messuage of a manor, a manor house. Later: any large or stately residence; (U.S.) the residence of the president or a state governor (frequently in governor's mansion). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > manor house hallc1000 boroughc1175 court1297 manorc1300 palacec1300 mansion1375 placea1387 manor-place1392 chemis1408 head-place1463 mansion place1473 manse1490 court-hall1552 manery1563 manor house1575 seat1607 country seat1615 great house1623 mansion house1651 country house1664 manor-seata1667 place-house1675 mansion-seat1697 hall-house1702 big house1753 ha'-house1814 manoir1830 manor hall1840 yashiki1863 seigneury1895 stately home1934 stately2009 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial palacec1300 dome1553 residencea1616 great house1623 mansion house1651 palazzo1657 châteauc1739 mansion1815 palacio1839 haveli1871 puri1935 1375 in A. H. Cooke Early Hist. Mapledurham (1925) 204 (MED) The thridde Parte of the Mansione of the seide manere of Mapulderham. 1491 in Acts Lords of Council Civil Causes (1839) I. 190/2 Þe mansioune of blaksawling & four acris of lande Immediately liand to þe said mansioune. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxiv. sig. i.ii Whiche place somtyme, was the kynges mansyon Translated to an abbay, by her commaundyment. 1513 Will of Robert Fabyan in R. Fabyan New Chrons. Eng. & France (1811) Pref. p. iii If it happen me to decesse at my mansion called Halstedys. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 317 The case of a treble hoboy was a mansion for him a Court. View more context for this quotation a1640 T. Risdon Chorogr. Surv. Devon (1811) (modernized text) §41 44 A fair dwelling house, which he maketh his mansion. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 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. 1720 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1901) XVI. 351 I Give..unto my beloved Daughter..my manshon Where I now dwell. 1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 171 It was the mansion, or manor-place of the Barony of Philorth. 1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone vii. 112 The lordly Mansion of its pride Is stripped. 1846 J. K. Polk Diary 21 July (1929) 128 He had not been in my office or at the President's mansion for many weeks. 1865 Dublin Univ. Mag. 65 24/1 The fussy mistress of the ‘mansion’..as in Brighton they call a lodging house. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 Oct. 1/1 What are called mansions—a mansion is a house with a back staircase—are a drug in the market. 1940 W. V. T. Clark Ox-bow Incident ii. 110 On the west edge of town he'd built a white, wooden mansion, with pillars like a Southern plantation home, and big grounds around it, fenced with white picket fence. 1970 M. Angelou I know why Caged Bird Sings xvii. 115 She lived in a big mansion with a thousand servants. 1993 N.Y. Times 17 Jan. i18/3 Mr. Clinton was more upbeat this afternoon as he watched movers load the remaining boxes in the nearly empty Governor's Mansion on an 18-wheel van. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > [noun] bottleeOE houseeOE boldOE building1297 builda1387 edificec1386 mansion1389 bigginga1400 housinga1400 edification1432 edifying1432 fabric1483 edify1555 structure1560 erection1609 framec1639 bastiment1679 drum1846 dump1899 gaff1932 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 43 (MED) If..his mansioun and his houseld ben in ye cite, he schal do don a dyryge and messe. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 639 Euery hous & euery mancioun, Of marbil werne. 1444 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 340 (MED) A mansion or hospicium..called Saynt Johanes Hostel. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 9 §2 Every mese and mancion or dwelling place within the lordship. 1509 Sale of Rights in Inn (Brasenose Coll. Oxf. Archives) (Hurst Cal. of Munim. 29, Wycombe 9) One Tenement or Mansion called the Lyon. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. xxviiiv With pitefull scriches she repleneshyd the hole mancion. 1599 T. M. Micro-cynicon v. sig. C4 It argues not that I haue bin the man, That first kept reuels in that mantian. 1655 W. Gouge & T. Gouge Learned Comm. Hebrewes (xi. 9) iii. 35 We usually call the Mansions which are here stiled..Tabernacles, Tents. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 140 The village preacher's modest mansion. 1781 W. Cowper Let. 25 Aug. (1979) I. 514 The building we inhabit, consists of two mansions. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > clerical residence (general) > [noun] mansion1444 manse1534 mansion house1546 glebe-house1645 presbytère1734 presbytery1825 parochial house1829 clergy-house1865 1444 Indenture in Communic. Cambr. Antiquarian Soc. (?1877) 4 358 (MED) Alle thappurtenaunces to ye same vicriage longyng..except the Mansion of the same vicriage. 1559 Queen's Injunct. B All..Parsons, Vicars, & Clarkes, hauing Churches, chappels, or Mansions within this Deanrie. 1614 in W. Cramond Church of Aberdour (1896) 12 The minister..had nocht as yet gotten entres to his mansioun. d. In extended use. Formerly: spec. †the body (as the ‘dwelling place’ of the soul) (obsolete). ΚΠ 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. v. 1 Oure erthy mancion wherin we now dwell. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. v. 2 Desyringe to be clothed with oure mansion which is from heven. 1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. D3v Shall the large limmit of faire Brittayne By me be ouerthrowne, and shall I not, Master this little mansion of my selfe. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iv. 68 The innocent Mansion of my Loue (my Heart). View more context for this quotation 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary ii. 296 I neuer saw a braue spirit part more mildly from the old mansion, then his did. a1698 W. Temple Poems 46 If ever any reasonable Soul Harbor'd in shape of either brute or fowl, This was the mansion. 1723 J. Barker Patch-work Screen for Ladies iv. 126 Sin, Sorrow, and Sufferings..accost and attack her [sc. the Soul], and from which she is perpetually wishing to be delivered; and yet is loth to quit this her Earthly Mansion. 1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall V. l. 216 Their mummies were embalmed..to preserve the ancient mansion of the soul, during a period of three thousand years. But the attempt is partial and unavailing. 1816 D. P. Campbell Poems (new ed.) 178 The bed Where the soul's earthly mansion sinks to rest. 1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 353 We stopped at Bower Cave, and I spent an hour in it—one of the most novel and interesting of all Nature's underground mansions. 1993 Coloradoan (Fort Collins) 26 Dec. a6/1 It will take years, but our foot is finally in the door of cancer's deadly mansion. e. In plural (sometimes with singular agreement). Chiefly British. A large residential building divided into flats.Usually with capital initial, in proper names. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > block of flats or apartments land1456 tenement1681 tenement house1858 barrack1862 mansions1868 apartment house1874 apartment building1883 single-decker1896 block dwellings1899 project1932 apartment block1955 condominium1962 condo1964 multi1973 1868 Post Office London Directory (ed. 69) 171/4 Belgrave Mansions, Grosvenor gdns. Pmlc. (S.W.) (formerly Lower Eaton St.). 1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister II. iv. 67 He had been to look at a flat,—a set of rooms,—in the Belgrave Mansions, in Pimlico. 1892 A. W. Pinero Magistrate ii. 105 Messiter. Where at, sir? Vale. Albert Mansions, Victoria Street. 1901 Daily 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. 1955 Times 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’. 1972 Mainichi 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. 1998 Independent on Sunday 18 Oct. 78 Over the last two or three years there has been a mini-boom in these mansions. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a stage in a journey mansiona1382 journey1490 gests1550 jessa1593 stage1603 stade1616 manzil1619 skoff1785 pipe1793 leg1898 lap1932 society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > break in a journey > stopping-place on a journey gist?c1225 mansiona1382 baiting1477 station1578 mansion place1584 manzil1619 night stop1787 gite1798 outspan1821 halting-place1826 stopping-place1827 stepping-stone1849 waypoint1860 landing-place1861 stop-off1869 stop-over1881 siding1896 half-way1897 sit-down1898 pull-up1899 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Exod. xvii. 1 Þen gone forþ all þe multitude of þe sonnes of yrael fro þe desert of Syn by here mansyouns [L. per mansiones suas]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 167 Þer was þe þritteþ mansioun and abidyng, in þe whiche þe children of Israel dwelleden & abidde aftir þat þey come oute of egipte. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 77/2 The fyrst mansion that they made was by the ryuer of tygre. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iii. i. 191 Eight mansions from thence is the Region of Frankincense. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. iv. §1. 264 From Marah he remoued to Elim, the sixth Mansion, a march of eight miles. 1737 W. Whiston tr. Josephus Antiq. Jews xvi. ix, in tr. Josephus Genuine Wks. 527 Herod..in three days time marched seven mansions [Gk. σταθμούς]. 3. a. A place in which a person, etc., lives or lodges; a place of abode, a dwelling place. †to have one's mansion: to have one's dwelling place, to reside (obsolete). Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] resteOE worthineeOE settlea900 wickc900 houseOE erdinga1000 teld-stedec1000 wonningc1000 innOE bewistc1200 setnessc1200 wanea1225 i-holda1250 wonec1275 wunselec1275 wonning-place1303 bigginga1325 wonning-stede1338 tabernaclea1340 siegec1374 dwelling-placec1380 lodgingc1380 seea1382 tabernaclea1382 habitationc1384 mansionc1385 arresta1400 bowerc1400 wonning-wanec1400 lengingc1420 tenementc1425 tentc1430 abiding placea1450 mansion place1473 domicile1477 lendingc1480 inhabitance1482 biding-place?1520 seat1535 abode1549 remainingc1550 soil1555 household1585 mansion-seata1586 residing1587 habitance1590 fixation1614 situation?1615 commoratorya1641 haft1785 location1795 fanea1839 inhabitancy1853 habitat1854 occupancy1864 nivas1914 downsetting1927 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > [noun] earneOE wickc900 bottleeOE innOE boldOE wonningc1000 wanea1225 wonea1250 bidea1300 dwelling1340 habitaculec1374 habitaclec1384 habitationc1384 mansionc1385 placea1387 manantie?a1400 dungeonc1460 longhousec1460 folda1500 residencea1522 abode1549 bield1570 lodgement1598 bidinga1600 sit-house1743 location1795 wigwam1817 address1855 yard1865 res1882 nivas1914 multifamily1952 c1385 G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1974 The grete temple of Mars in Trace..Theras Mars hath his souereyn mansion. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2057 (MED) Euery man on his weye is went And repeired to his mansioun. c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 2089 The triumphall guerdoun That God reserueth to euery creature Aboue in hys celestiall mansioun. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cccxl The other [chapel], and the foresaid Haulles, the Cardinals haue theyr mansion. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 96 Thow sall behald him, and his mantioun Be brocht to nocht. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) v. ii. 100 Timon hath made his euerlasting Mansion Vpon the Beached Verge of the salt Flood. View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. i. 41 This incomparable mansion [sc. Venice] is the only Paragon of all Cities in the World. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 296 Thy Mansion wants thee, Adam, rise. View more context for this quotation 1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 9 Where the bleak Swiss their stormy mansions tread. 1777 J. Howard State of Prisons (1780) 25 That the penitent should..be driven again..to the practice which soon brings him back to his former mansion. 1806 E. Bath Poems 102 Behold those fine threads that are laid to ensnare... They seem but a mansion for pleasure design'd, While the enemy's form they conceal. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxviii. 34 Rome is alone my life's centre, a mansion of home. 1939 E. B. White in Harper's Mag. Jan. 217/2 Yesterday I could have been found..studying..an outdoor handicraft book in which I had discovered..how to build a tree-house. (There may have been..an unconscious urge to escape to green mansions.) 1987 A. Tutuola Pauper, Brawler & Slanderer xxvii. 147 They followed them to the Mansion of Sojourners in which Pauper, Brawler and Slanderer were living. b. In extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > absence of movement > [noun] > remaining as opposed to going beleavingc1330 mansionc1400 remaining1496 stay1538 staying1546 stay-put1941 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiv. 216 Pryde in ricchesse regneth rather þan in pouerte; Arst in þe Maister þan in þe man some mansioun he hath. c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 754 Thus every thing..Hath his propre mansyon, To which hit seketh to repaire. 1555 R. Eden Of North Regions in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 265v This sea at certeyne tymes of the yeare..dryueth furth his increase to seke newe mansions. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xcv. sig. F4v Oh what a mansion haue those vices got, Which for their habitation chose out thee, Where beauties vaile doth couer euery blot. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 37 Suppose..The certain mansion were not yet assigned, The doubtfull residence no proof can bring Against the plain existence of the thing. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 182. ⁋1 The Visages of those in whom Love, Rage, Anger, Jealousy or Envy, have their frequent Mansions. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey II. v. 85 On whose high branches, waving with the storm, The birds of broadest wing their mansion form. 1777 S. Johnson Let. 29 Oct. (1992) III. 90 Oxford, the mansion of the liberal arts. 1798 W. Wordsworth Lines Tintern Abbey in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 209 When thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms. 1811 M. Holford Poems 24 On that once-blooming cheek, sits the grave's livid hue, And the cold reptile crawls in that bosom so true, Once the mansion of love and delight! 2001 M. Blake 24 Karat Schmooze xviv. 273 She considered on her habitual way of dealing with bad shit—wallowing in the pain, making a mansion of misery, a tower of torment no one could assail. 4. Astrology. = house n.1 11. Also: each of the twenty-seven or twenty-eight divisions of the ecliptic, which are occupied by the moon on successive days. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > house towerc1374 housea1393 mansionc1395 anglea1398 harbourc1405 palacec1425 cardinal point1585 synod house1589 dodecatemory1603 the world > the universe > celestial sphere > circle of celestial sphere > [noun] > great circle > ecliptic > division of mansionc1395 nakshatra1792 the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun] > Zodiac > sign of zodiac > as seat of planet housea1393 mansionc1395 termc1405 the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > planet as > situation of > house towerc1374 housea1393 mansionc1395 palacec1425 c1395 G. Chaucer Squire's Tale 50 Phebus, the sonne..was ny his exaltacioun in Martes face and in his mansion. c1395 G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale 1130 The eighte and twenty mansiouns That longen to the moone. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. 387 (MED) Iubiter..Withynne the Fissh heeld tho his mansioun. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xviii. 77 Dyane..Entred the Crab, her propre mancyon. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour 6120 in Wks. (1931) I. 379 Als cleir As flammand Phebus in his Mantioun. 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus 385 The dividing of the Heavens into XII. Mansions or Houses. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vi. 157 When she [sc. the moon] is in her fifteenth mansion, which mansion is in de head of Libra. 1836 J. F. Davis Chinese II. xiv. 136 The written spells..consist of mystical compounds of various..words, in which astrology is generally introduced, with the eight diagrams of Fo-hy, the twenty-eight lunar mansions, the five planets, etc. 1879 Contemp. Rev. June 419 The Chaldæan astronomy has not the twenty-eight lunar mansions. 1984 J. C. Eade Forgotten Sky ii. 60 Given the force of ‘opposition’ in astrology, it will also be rational to make a planet's ‘detriment’ the sign that lies opposite its mansion, or ‘proper’ sign. 1984 J. C. Eade Forgotten Sky ii. 61 If Saturn, say, is in Capricorn, authors will often refer to its being ‘in its mansion’. 5. Chiefly in plural. a. Each of a number of separate dwelling places or apartments in a large house, group of buildings, etc. Also in extended use. Now usually archaic as a translation of, or in allusion to, John 14:2 (see quot. 1526). ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > flat or apartment mansion?c1400 tenement1593 apartmenta1645 basement storey1743 flat1824 house1885 basement flat1894 apt.1901 home unit1929 triplex1932 housing unit1935 ?c1400 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Sidney Sussex) cxlix. 5 (MED) Holy menne..schal be feyne in þeir dennes, þat is, in schere mansions [a1500 Univ. Oxf. 64 mansyuns] of heuen. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iii. 5753 (MED) Priam..Ordeyned..A certeyn noumbre of prestis for to dwelle In þe temple..To whiche prestis þe kyng ȝaf mansiouns, Þer to abide. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 113 The kynges palice, with mansiones for his men. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 235 And also mansiones [L. mansiunculas] and other chambres [in Noah's Ark]. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) John xiv. f. cxlijv In my fathers housse are many mansions. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Jij They came to a low cotage..hauing in it two mansions, in one of ye which were women & children & in the other only men. 1688 A. Behn Lycidus 57 The same Castle..had in it many Mansions and Apartments, and..so retired from one another, that it was difficult to come at any time together or to meet. 1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iv. xiii. 335 Grecian Houses were usually divided into two Parts, in which the Men and women had distinct Mansions assign'd. a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 120 in Wks. (1721) II. The Bees who in their secret Hive, Mansions Hexangular contrive. 1762 F. Sheridan Hist. Nourjahad 147 Having acquitted myself well of my duty here, I am sure of my reward in those blessed mansions, where avarice, luxury, cruelty and pride, can never enter. a1805 W. Paley Serm. (1810) xxxv. 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. 1823 C. Lamb Old & New Schoolmaster in Elia 113 My head has not many mansions, nor spacious. 1878 J. Morley Carlyle 195 In that house are many mansions, the boisterous sanctuary of a vagabond polytheism. 1959 Life 20 July 63/1 Now scientists can descend, protectively goggled and finned, into the teeming mansions of the reef to examine them [sc. specimens] at leisure. 1972 ‘M. Innes’ Open House xi. 101 There being neither youth or age, sir, in the 'eavenly mansions—no, nor in the other place either. 1991 Economist 23 Nov. 57/1 It is precisely because there are many mansions on the political right that Mr Bush, if he keeps his nerve, can relax about the right's threat to him. ΚΠ 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius f. 418v There be sayd to be 4. Mansions in hell... The second Lymbus, a place for such as are not Baptised. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xiv, in Poems 7 Hell it self will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 143 Th' Infernal Mansions nodding seem to dance [L. Quin ipsae stupuere domus, etc.] . View more context for this quotation a1736 T. Yalden On Re-printing Milton's Prose Wks. in S. Johnson Wks. of Eng. Poets (1790) XXXIX. 51 The dread abyss beneath, Hell's horrid mansions. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 303 As in heaven, so in hell, there are many mansions. 1795 P. M. Freneau Poems 215 To hell's dark mansions haste the abandon'd throng. 6. The action of remaining, living, or staying in a place. Also: permanence or continuance in a position or state. Frequently in to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansion: to make or establish one's residence. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [noun] wonningc960 bewistc1200 livingc1350 lodging1362 habitationc1374 indwellinga1382 dwellingc1384 inhabitinga1400 bidingc1400 inhabitationc1400 residencec1405 mansiona1425 winningc1425 demur1444 abodec1450 resianty1467 demurrance1509 resiance1566 place-being1567 residency1579 resiancy1580 commorancy1586 residing1587 inhabitance1588 abodement1592 commorance1594 habit1603 commoration1623 inwoning1647 inhabitancy1681 habitancy1792 domicile1835 occupying1849 abidal1850 tenancy1856 society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] > establish residence wickc897 telda1325 buildc1340 nestlea1382 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 to take one's lodgec1475 reside1490 inhabit1548 to settle one's rest1562 to sit down1579 to set up (or in) one's staff (of rest)1584 to set (up) one's rest1590 nest1591 to set down one's rest1591 roost1593 inherit1600 habituate1603 seat1612 to take up (one's) residencea1626 settle1627 pitch1629 fix1638 locate1652 to marry and settle1718 domesticate1768 domiciliate1815 to hang up one's hat1826 domicile1831 to stick one's stakes1872 homestead1877 to put down roots1882 to hang one's hat1904 localize1930 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [noun] > continuance, duration arrestc1386 continuance1393 tenor1398 lasta1400 lastinga1400 abiding?a1425 demur1533 remanence1558 subsistence1600 continualness1611 incessancy?1615 continuancy1621 uncessantness1627 mansion1637 subsistency1642 remanency1647 unintermissiveness1651 indesinency1657 continuation1664 unintermission1681 incessantness1727 unceasingness1727 unintermittingness1866 a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 4909 If he there make his mansioun, For to abide professioun. a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) 1884 (MED) He atteyned hath the chief dongoun, wher as the kyng helde his mancyoun. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) v. 8 Perfit men..entire in till godis house of heuen, and takis þaire ioy and þaire mansyon eftire þaire perfeccioun. 1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. Giv That malice make, no mansion in their minds. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Hh1v That the solidnesse of the Earth is for the station and Mansion of liuing creatures. View more context for this quotation ?1611 G. Chapman in tr. Homer Iliads iii. Comm. 48 Who euer saw true learning, wisdome, or wit, vouchsafe mansion in any proud, vaineglorious, and braggartly spirit. 1637 H. Sydenham Serm. ii. 35 Sitting presupposes stabilitie and mansion. 1667 J. Denham On Cowley 1 These Poets neer our Princes sleep, And in one Grave their Mansion keep. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 280 We have not a word which properly signifies the stable mansion of Eternitie. 1696 N. Tate & N. Brady New Version Psalms of David cxliii. 3 To Darkness chas'd and forc'd to seek A Mansion with the dead. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature 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. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. i. 171 Does my Lord Manfred keep his mansion there, next to the Misses Otranto? 7. A hide of land. Cf. manse n. 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > hide hide848 mansionc1450 hideland1577 manse1597 familia1758 geld-hide1878 c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) 887 (MED) Beholding heigges and holtz so grene, The mansions and medues mowen al newe. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. v. sig. b.iiii He gaue a certayne mansyon To the prouynce of Lyndesy. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 31 Yet could not the tenth Hide, tenth Mansion, or tenth part of the Kingdome be granted. 1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 331 Three mansions, in which are situate eleven houses yielding four shillings and seven-pence. Compounds C1. General attributive. ΚΠ 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 185 Yet is this Mansion-Globe, this Man-Container, of a narrower compass even than other its Fellow-Wanderers of our System. C2. mansion block n. a block of mansion flats. ΚΠ 1984 N.Y. Times 25 Mar. x. 12/5 The redbrick ‘mansion block’ of apartments when [sic] Lady Diana (as she then was) lived during her courtship. 1994 Sunday Times 6 Mar. (News Review section) iv. 10 (advt.) Park Mansions, SW11 £90,000 With its entrance in Soudan Road, a ground floor flat in a portered mansion block by Battersea Park. mansion flat n. a large, luxurious flat. ΚΠ 1939 Daily Tel. 18 Dec. 14/6 (advt.) Self-contained unfurnished mansion flat to let. 1987 Times 22 May 16/7 They've moved to a mansion flat in Kensington. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † mansionv. Obsolete. rare. 1. intransitive. To dwell, reside, or stay. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [verb (intransitive)] wonc725 erdec893 siteOE liveeOE to make one's woningc960 through-wonOE bigc1175 walkc1225 inwonea1300 lenda1300 lenga1300 lingera1300 erthec1300 stallc1315 lasta1325 lodge1362 habit?a1366 breeda1375 inhabitc1374 indwella1382 to have one's mansionc1385 to take (up) one's inn (or inns)a1400 keepc1400 repairc1400 to have (also hold, keep, make) one's residencec1405 to hold (also keep, make, take, etc.) one's mansiona1425 winc1425 to make (one's) residence1433 resort1453 abidec1475 use1488 remaina1500 demur1523 to keep one's house1523 occupy1523 reside1523 enerdc1540 kennel1552 bower1596 to have (also hold, keep, make) residence1597 subsist1618 mansiona1638 tenant1650 fastena1657 hospitate1681 wont1692 stay1754 to hang out1811 home1832 habitate1866 a1638 J. Mede Paraphr. 2 Peter (1642) 16 Visible as the clouds of heaven,..and other meteors; as also the rest of the creatures mansioning therein. a1711 T. Ken Christophil in Wks. (1721) I. 430 Love, when Faith sees my Jesus near, Will say, 'Tis good to mansion here. 2. transitive. To provide with a mansion. ΚΠ a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 394 Say, is he mansion'd in his native Spheres? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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