† mansion-seatn.
Obsolete.
1. A place of abode, a dwelling place.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun]
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella cxv The mansion seat of blisse, and iust excuse of louers.
1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. 62 The citie which the Fates ordained to be the mansion seat of men, & gods.
1704 C. Darby Psalms xxxvii. 55 Wait but a while, and thou no more These wicked men shalt see: Their houses and their mansion seats, Shall quite forgotten be.
a1717 W. Diaper tr. Oppian Halieuticks (1722) i. 18 The Anthies lie conceal'd in close Retreat, But oft must stray far from their Mansion Seat.
2. The chief residence of a landed proprietor.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > manor house
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1697 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 496 In the Year 1684. there were Two of these Heads dug up near Turvy, the Mansion Seat of the Lord Barnevall.
1719 R. Pack tr. Tibullus Elegies ii. iv, in Misc. in Verse & Prose (ed. 2) 152 Content I'd sell th' old Mansion Seat, and Land.
1751 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 2 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1811 A certain district of ground immediately contiguous to the mansion seat of a family.
1771 E. Griffith Hist. Lady Barton III. 201 Castle W—..the mansion-seat where my father then resided.
1792 G. Washington Let. 2 May in J. Sparks Writings of G. Washington (1855) I. App. i. 549 Augustine lived at the ancient mansion seat, in Westmoreland County, where he died, and was interred in the family vault.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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