managen.²

Brit.

/ˈmanɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈmænɪdʒ/

Forms:

α. 1500s manedge, 1500s–1600s manadge, 1500s–1600s manege, 1500s–1600s mannage, 1500s– manage, 1600s mannadge.

β. 1500s– menage, 1600s mennage, 1800s ménage (irregular).

See also manège n.

Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: manage v.; Italian maneggio.

Etymology: Either < manage v. or < Italian maneggio (1590 in sense 2c; early 16th cent. in sense ‘astute dealing’, 1526 in sense ‘management’; > French manège (1606 (in form manegge ) in sense ‘dexterity’, 1611 in sense ‘place for exercising horses’, 1671 in sense ‘artful trick’)) < maneggiare manage v.Derivation directly < Italian maneggio is less likely because the latter is attested in the sense ‘place for exercising horses, action of exercising horses’ only from 1590 (and French manège (borrowed from the Italian word) is not attested in the same sense until 1611). Additionally, the assimilation of the ending to the English form -age in the earliest examples is easier to explain if it is assumed that the noun is a derivative of the verb, since Italian words with penultimate stress and final -io generally retained them when borrowed into English at this date. Sense 2 was replaced in the 17th cent. by the French equivalent manège , which is now usual: see manège n. The β. forms probably arose from a confusion, on the part of English writers, of this word with French menage act of leading < mener to lead; there is also some evidence of confusion with French ménage household: see ménage n.

a. The action of controlling or manipulating a person, animal, etc.; the exercise of control. Also in extended use. Frequently with reference to sense 2b. archaic in later use (echoing Spenser).

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society > authority > control > [noun] > controlling

manage?1578

controlling1651

α.

?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 30 His mare in hiz mannage did a littl so titubate, that mooch a doo had hiz manhod too sit in his sadl, & too scape the foyl of a fall.

1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Ii2^v And let me forth vnto my full ca[r]ire, On places slippery, and my manage ill.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 69 My Lord shees not pac'ste yet, you must take some paines to worke her to your mannage .

1691 J. Wilson Belphegor i. iii Do but bring him to the right manage at first; humour him in every thing,..and the rest follows.

1739 W. Warburton Comm. Pope's Ess. Man in Hist. Wks. Learned Feb. 92 Till the Horse and the Ox come to know why they undergo such different Manage and Fortunes in the Hand of Man.

1755 E. Young Centaur v. 227 Beasts of so gross a class as they [sc. certain persons mentioned] choose to rank with, scarce deserve to be brought to the Manage.

2007 A. Zurcher Spenser's Legal Lang. i. 1 Summoning a dream from hell, and joining it to the manage of a ‘fair-forg'd sprite’.

β. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xii. sig. Oo4^v The winged God him selfe Came riding on a Lion rauenous, Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe.1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 31 Rude Thought runs wild in Contemplation's Field; Converse, the Menage, breaks it to the Bit Of due Restraint.1902 F. E. Schelling Eng. Chron. Play 240 The great horse of the Spenserian allegory had a pace beyond his [sc. Dekker's] menage.

†b. Management; the action or manner of managing, administering, or directing; the conduct of business, etc. Obsolete.

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society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration

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α.

1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 176 Mutianus..drewe the whole manage of affaires into his owne handes.

?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. E4 Wilt thou be our Lieutenant there, And further vs in manage of these wars?

1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. iv. 25 Lorenso I commit into your hands, The husbandry and mannage of my house.

1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 138 Young men in the conduct and mannage of Actions, embrace more then they can hold.

1617 J. Hales Serm. Oxf. 17 The greatnesse of the businesse, the manage of which they vndertake.

1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 1 Howsoever in the common manage, Heresie and Schisme are but ridiculous tearmes.

1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 667 That they might..consult of the further manage of the War.

1680 J. Oldham in Earl of Rochester et al. Poems 121 Fools..Who..justly forfeit all that praise..Which we by our wise Manage, from a Sin can raise.

1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 95 St. Peter had the keys given to him, and that by our Saviour himself, who had never entrusted him, except he had known him capable of their manage, and custody.

1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 45 The manage of his Employment is not prescribed by the Rector.

1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans I. 95 His opinion was not more against her humour, than his manage of it was to her mind.

β. 1665 I. Walton Life of Hooker 39 [Queen Elizabeth] having experimented his wisdom..in the menage of her affairs..she made him archbishop of Canterbury.1665 I. Walton Life of Hooker 83 Revenge is so pleasing, that man is hardly persuaded to submit the menage of it to the..wisdom of his Creator.1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode i. i. 17 For the mennage of a family, I know it better than any Lady in Sicily.1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 7 Among all the errors..in our menage, nothing is more dangerous than entring into bonds.

†c. Power of management. Obsolete.

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1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman i. 40 The spirits which are without manage, in their enterprises, are also without courage in their afflictions.

†d. An administrative duty or office. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > duties > [noun] > administrative

manage1651

1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. D2 [He] gave him imployment in congregations, and other manages more frequently then was usuall.

2. Horse Riding. Now usually manège: see manège n. 2.

†a. The movements in which a horse is trained in a riding school; any of the separate movements characteristic of a horse so trained; spec. a short gallop at full speed. Obsolete.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > [noun]

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air1607

manège1768

action1805

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > gallop > short or sudden

manage1577

career1591

burst1789

α.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1663/2 They were better practised to fetch in booties, than to make their manege or Carere.

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Countercuffe sig. Aiij It should seeme by the manages my beast made, that hee knewe his Maister had a speciall peece of seruice in hande.

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Cij^v Howe souldier-like hee made an ende of his manage with a double rest.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Air In horsemanship, a doing, or stirring manage, or manage raised aboue ground. à demy air, a certaine curuet, or manage, wherein the halfe of a horse is in the aire, the other on the ground.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Passade The manage for combat, or souldiors manage.

1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. ii. 58 Manage with rest, and manage without rest, manage with single turnes, and manage with double turnes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. i. 11 His horses..are taught their mannage .

1659 Duke of Newcastle Let. 13 May in E. Nicholas Papers (1920) IV. 125 One off my horses of manege, which will bee the quieteste..hee or anye man can haue.

1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa (ed. 3) I. 175 By Bellém there is a noble structure..where the King's horses are educated for the manage.

a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) x. 370 The horse is taught his manage.

β. 1617 Bp. J. Hall Quo Vadis? (new ed.) xiii. 41 The horse is a noble creature... There is a double kinde of menage..one for seruice, the other for pleasure.a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 330 One of his sonns riding the Menage with that addresse..as I had never seene any thing approch it.1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 640/1 She trained her youth as the colt is trained to the menage.

†b. The training, handling, and directing of a horse. With the: the art of training and managing horses. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager > horse-breaking or -training

managea1586

managery1685

school1705

schooling1753

manège1768

backing1783

lunging1833

horse-taming1836

dressage1912

α.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 21 My horse..now hath made me to his hand so right, That in the manage my selfe do take delight.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 49 Speake tearmes of mannage to thy bounding steed.

a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. vi. 69 The hot horse..Forgets schoole dooing, being therein traind, And of kind mannadge.

1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle ii. 65 His chief pastime and divertisement consisted in the Mannage of the two afore mentioned Horses.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 823 A Horseman..(Skill'd in the Manage of the bounding Steed).

1864 London Rev. 28 May It is the menage, the education of the animal, that gives him half his value.

1876 E. Dowden Poems 67 I know the careless grace My Perseus wears in manage of the steed.

β. 1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. 314 [He] rode out with him, and taught him the menage.1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 313 What in the language of the ménage is called the line of the banquet.

c. An enclosed space for the training of horses and for the practice of horsemanship; a riding school. Also attributive.

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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > riding school

riding house1631

manage1655

riding schoola1680

manège1705

school1705

managery1782

α.

1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 67 How many courses will the manage hold.

1684 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 400 Mr. Faubert having newly railed in a Manage & fitted it for the Academy, I went..to see the Young Gallants do their Exercise.

1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour II. 432 The bishop has built a manage or riding house.

1811 Edw. Earl Clarendon's Relig. & Policy Advt. Henry Viscount Cornbury..by a codicil to his will, dated Aug. 10. 1751. left divers MSS. of his great grandfather Edward Earl of Clarendon..with a direction that the money to arise from the..publication..should be employed ‘as a beginning of a Fund for supporting a Manage or Academy for riding..in Oxford’.

1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. i. i. 192 They are waiting For you in the manage-school, to give your judgment On that new Norman mare.

β. 1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus i. 7 He diligently applied himself to the best Exercises, as frequenting the Academies, Fencing, the Menage, &c.1975 E. Baird Illustr. Guide Riding viii. 61 Ask for the extension of trot on the long side of the school or menage.1986 Horse & Rider Sept. 59/4 (advt.) In-door school. All weather menage, x-country course.

†3. Bearing, demeanour, or conduct. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > demeanour or bearing

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i-letelOE

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portment1833

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1593 G. Harvey New Let. Notable Contents sig. B4^v His talke was sweet, his Order fine; his whole menage braue.

4. The skilful handling of a weapon, etc. Now rare.

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the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a bodily skill > manual skill > dexterity

hagherlaikc1175

sleight1390

sleight of handa1500

dexterity1548

manage1598

dexterousness1622

neat-handedness1839

α.

1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades ii. 36 For the manadge of his lance, he generall praise did winne.

1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. i. sig. I The sonne of Venus hath bequeath'd his quiuer To Ithocles his manage.

1687 London Gaz. No. 2276/5 The Satisfaction of seeing what..Address he had in the manage of his Horse and Arms.

1720 D. Manley Power of Love vi. 332 To learn his Exercises..and the Manage of the Sword.

1926 H. D. Sedgwick tr. F. Guicciardini in Hist. Spain xix. 153 Good at the manage of arms.

β. 1670 R. Graham Angliæ Speculum Morale 145 Each striving to go beyond the other..in the dextrous..menage of his Weapon.

†5. Treatment; a manner or style of dealing with a person or thing. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun]

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impression1390

actiona1398

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suppressiona1500

operation1525

influence1598

effect1608

manage1608

solicitation1626

attingency1642

influx1644

influency1651

incidence1656

attingence1678

influencing1754

impact1817

the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > behaviour towards another or treatment

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1608 G. Chapman Trag. Duke of Byron iv, in Conspiracie Duke of Byron sig. N2 There is one sort of manadge for the Great, Another for inferiour.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §327 Quick-silver will not endure the Mannage of the Fire.

†6. A plan. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan

redeeOE

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manage1667

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to take measures1698

method1704

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strategy1834

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layout1867

draft1879

dart1882

lurk1916

schema1939

lick1955

1667 J. Glanvill Philos. Considerations Witches 31 The policy and menages of the instruments of darkness.

a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 82 Our ignorance of the reasons, and menages of Providence.

Compounds

† manage horse n. Obsolete a horse trained in the manège; a dressage horse.

ΚΠ

1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle ii. 106 Grange-Horses, Hackny-Horses, Manage-Horses,..and others.

1729 J. Vanderbank (title) Twenty five actions of the manage horse, engrav'd by Josephus Sympson.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

managev.

Brit.

/ˈmanɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈmænɪdʒ/

Forms:

α. 1500s mannedge, 1500s 1700s manege (in sense 2), 1500s–1700s mannadge, 1500s–1700s mannage, 1500s– manage, 1600s manadge; Scottish 1800s– mainage, 1800s– manage, 1900s– manies, 1900s– manis, 1900s– manish, 1900s– maunish.

β. 1500s–1700s menage; Scottish pre-1700 menadge, pre-1700 menage, pre-1700 minnage.

Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian maneggiare.

Etymology: < Italian maneggiare to handle (1298–1309), to be able to use skilfully, to manage, to direct or exercise a horse (14th cent.; > Spanish manejar to manage, use, manipulate (1591)), probably < an unattested post-classical Latin verb < classical Latin manus hand (see manus n.¹) + post-classical Latin -izare -ize suffix. Compare French manier (see manner n.).Recorded earlier than the cognate manage n.² Although the earliest attested form in English is manege , the ending was, as in the noun, already in the 16th cent. assimilated to the English ending -age . In the late 17th and early 18th cent. the form menage was chiefly used where the sense was close to that of Middle French, French †mesnager (French ménager : see mesnage v.; 1567 in sense ‘to administer’, 1570 in senses ‘to spare’, and ‘to arrange with care’, 1628–30 in sense ‘to treat with consideration’). It is also likely that this French verb influenced the sense-development of the English word: in the writings of Dryden and his contemporaries, there are frequent uses of manage (as well as the form menage) which appear to be consciously modelled on the French word.

a. transitive. To control (a person or animal); to exert one's authority or rule over.

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society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)]

wieldeOE

redeOE

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moderate1534

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manage1560

sway1587

to bear (a rein) upon1603

bridle1615

ephorize1647

puppet1840

coact1855

boss1856

run1869

swing1873

1560 A. L. tr. J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias i. 6 We must alwai haue in remembrance, that which is spoken that god placeth men here onely to mannage them, & to make them to fetch their compasses (as thei say) & sodenly to turne againe.

1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. i And full three Sommers likewise shall he waste In mannaging those fierce barbarian mindes.

1657 Bp. J. Taylor Disc. Friendship (ed. 2) 194 Our absolution does but..comfort and instruct your Conscience, direct and manage it.

1694 J. Addison St. Cecilia's Day in Ann. Misc. 136 Musick..With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the Man with secret Art.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. xiv. 324 Women are the properest to manage Women.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman x. 347 Unless the understanding of woman be enlarged..she will never have sufficient sense or command of temper to manage her children properly.

1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 40 His attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it.

1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. ix. 180 My mother..was the only one that ever could manage him.

1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent iii. 77 ‘I don't know how to manage him,’ Mr Verloc explained, peevishly. ‘Won't do to leave him downstairs alone with the lights.’

1989 Fast Forward 18 Oct. 22/3 If you want your pooch to be perfect or be able to manage your mutt, then here's a tip.

b. transitive. Originally and chiefly Medicine. To control or relieve (a disease or disorder); to look after (a patient, case, or client) as appropriate. Also, esp. in later use: to provide or coordinate (a suitable course of action for the care of a such a person).

ΚΠ

1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Jan. 63 The patient's syphilophobia had..increased to such a degree that it became extremely difficult to manage the case.

1964 A. Schlossman in A. Sorby Mod. Ophthalmol. III. 141 Pleoptics..has its greatest value in the treatment of the large number of patients with eccentric fixation who cannot be managed by any other form of therapy.

1993 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 80 103/2 This report embraces all cases of choledocholithiasis managed by one surgeon since laparoscopic cholecystectomy was introduced as the routine management for gallbladder stones in June 1990.

1994 Guardian 9 Feb. 13 The role of the case manager is to ‘manage’ people's illness, keeping them in the community and out of psychiatric wards whenever possible.

c. transitive. to manage (a person) out of: to force out or away; to expel.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel

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to shoot forth, out, awaya1400

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to turn out of ——1562

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detrude?1567

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to put by1600

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out of1656

expel1669

rout1812

to manage (a person) out of1907

1907 Smart Set Mar. 83/1 You're the sly rascal..to manage Mr. Leidermann out of the road so well.

1991 Independent (Bombay) 6 Dec. 1/2 He managed Senior Sena leader Chhagan Bhujbal, out of the party fold.

†2. Horse Riding.

a. transitive. To train or direct (a horse); to put (a horse) through the exercises of the manège (manège n. 2). Cf. sense 1a. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > training horses in specific ways

manage1561

pace1595

school1608

way1639

supple1753

traffic-proof1971

α.

1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. D.iii^v It is the peculyer prayse of vs Italians..to manege wyth reason, especiallye roughe horses.

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 226 Behold how..Lorde Frederike..rid on his horse..sometimes with curuettes..did so manage him, that it was a meruailous..spectacle to the beholders.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 6 Having a while gently mannaged him [sc. the horse] without finding him any way disobedient.

a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 25 How shall we Spend the Day? Manage the lustie Steed? Or see the Eager Hounds pursue the pray?

1771 R. Berenger Hist. & Art Horsemanship I. 169 They [sc. the horses] all having been carefully handled, dressed, or maneged as we call it.

β. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G3^v A goodly person, and could menage faire His stubborne steed with curbed canon bitt.1683 T. Hoy Agathocles 8 An Hard-mouth'd Beast, for slacken'd Raines unfitt, And must be menag'd with the Spur and Bitt.

b. intransitive. Of a horse: to perform an exercise of the manège (manège n. 2). Obsolete.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > perform special movements [verb (intransitive)]

manage1605

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 156 A large and mighty-limbed Steed..Can neuer mannage halfe so readilie As Spanish Iennet.

1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 16 Being able to passe a short carreire, to manage, beat a coruet and such like.

1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue i. 41 The Horse Which standing still too-long..Forgets to manage.

1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. ii. 57 You shall then teach him to manage, which is the only posture for the vse of the sword on horse-backe.

1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 271 He [sc. Man] taught the horse to manage, and forced the noblest of creatures to endure the bit and spur.

1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 10 [A horse speaks.] I could both Manage, Stop and Turn.

a. transitive. To conduct, carry on, supervise, or control (a war, undertaking, operation, affair, etc.).

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the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > practise or carry on [verb (transitive)]

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followOE

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to carry on1638

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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > conduct (an affair)

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to see for ——1405

to go in hand with (also to do something)c1450

treatc1450

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handle1548

manage1579

to bear forth1631

conduct1632

α.

1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin viii. 428 We managed many yeres agaynst the terrible enemie and tyrant of the Turks.

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. li. 29 But let vs menage war with blowes, like knights.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. ii. 15 Thou hauing made me Businesses, (which none (without thee) can sufficiently manage ).

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii §50. 471/1 Theodora..after the death of Constantine, managed for two years the affairs of the Empire.

1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 103 Our Surgeon was very skilful in managing their Cure.

1798 J. Austen Let. 1 Dec. (1995) 24 Mary does not manage matters in such a way as to make me want to lay in myself.

1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 60 So you see, my dear Olivia, they manage these things better in France.

1841 T. B. Macaulay Warren Hastings in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 240 When Parliament met in the following winter, the Commons proceeded to elect a committee for managing the impeachment.

1881 Cent. Mag. Dec. 263/2 A student elected by the others to manage all their common affairs.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxv. 331 Philip envied the easy way in which the painter managed his love affairs.

1995 Minnesota Monthly Jan. 100/1 While preparing your will you can also give someone power of attorney to manage your affairs.

β. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvii. 227 Who should giue them their commission but he whose most inward affaires they menage?1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxxi. 259 They are able to dispose and menage their owne affaires.

†b. intransitive. To conduct affairs; to plot, scheme, or intrigue. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] > manage or administrate

administrate1567

lead1579

manage1603

carrya1616

conduct1677

to fix it1836

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > conduct affairs

manage1603

the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot [verb (intransitive)]

subtlec1300

conspire1393

compass1430

malign?a1439

contrivec1440

machine?c1450

forthink1494

pretenda1500

practise1537

pack1568

brigue1580

machinate1602

manage1603

plot1607

tamper1607

faction1609

collogue1646

intriguea1714

to lay a scheme1826

scheme1842

angle1892

wheel and deal1961

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 229 He that enterteineth many friends, must of necessitie be conformable to them all: namely..with ambitious citizens, to sue and manage for offices [etc.].

1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 212 Intrust thy Fortune to the Pow'rs above. Leave them to manage for thee, and to grant What their unerring Wisdom sees thee want.

1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. iv. 124 If I had not managed very cleverly, they would have found me out.

1860 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (rev. ed.) iii. 49 It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Grandmother ii Her father..Hadn't a head to manage, and drank himself into his grave.

†c. transitive. To fulfil the duties of (an office). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > duties > [verb (transitive)] > discharge a duty or office

officiate1615

serve1621

managea1627

to hold down1891

pull1941

a1627 J. Hayward Ann. Four Years Elizabeth (1840) 54 About 140 passed under the sword and amonge them 12 of name, either for nobilitie of birth and state, or for honorable places they mannaged in the armie.

†d. intransitive. Of a matter, affair, etc.: to yield to being controlled or directed. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] > manage or administrate > admit of being managed

manage1631

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > conduct affairs > deal with a matter > admit of being dealt with

manage1631

1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. iv. 66 in Wks. II Is't a Cleare businesse? will it mannage well? My name must not be vs'd else.

e. transitive. To deal with or represent in a literary treatment.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > present by literary treatment

beloukOE

induce1484

handle1531

introduce1559

manage1697

write1781

plant1948

1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. a3 I was loath to be inform'd..how a Tragedy shou'd be contriv'd and manag'd in better Verse..than I cou'd teach others.

1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) Ep. The Character of Belinda, as it is now manag'd, resembles You in nothing but in Beauty.

1776 W. J. Mickle Diss. Lusiad (1778) p. ccxviii If the man of taste..will be pleased to mark how the genius of a Virgil has managed a war after a Homer.

1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 Feb. 4/3 Gaddis is at his most Waugh-like in the formal grace with which he manages the wild disorder of the plot.

4. transitive. To administer or regulate the use or expenditure of (money, provisions, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer > the use of finances or provisions

manage1589

1589 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. ii. 330 I..sall minnage it [sc. money] in sik sort that..thair sall be fruite drawin thereof.

1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) i. 51 Mannage every one of his gifts to the closing of those miserable breaches which threaten an inundation of calamitie upon us all.

1683 Britanniæ Speculum 78 Besides these the Comes sacrarum largitionum, who managed the Emperors Finances.

1796 C. Lamb Let. 3 Oct. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 50 I can unconnect myself with him, & shall manage all my father's monies in future myself.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iv. 155 The provisions..had been managed without economy.

1909 C. H. Firth Last Years of Protectorate I. 8 The government had not managed the treasury unthriftily.

1969 Time 15 Aug. 60 No institution manages more ‘O.P.M.’, or Other People's Money, than Manhattan's 116-year-old United States Trust Co.

1991 Business Week 18 Nov. 35/1 (advt.) For most people, managing personal finances usually falls in the category of dog awful.

a. transitive. To handle, wield, or make use of (a weapon, tool, implement, etc.). †to manage arms (obsolete): to fight.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)]

fightc900

to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle1297

to do battle1297

to give battle1297

strive13..

battle1330

to instore a battle1382

fettlec1400

pugnec1425

toilc1425

to deliver battle1433

conflict?a1475

bargain1487

mellaya1500

liverc1500

to come out1511

field1535

combat1589

to manage arms1590

sway1590

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or control > [verb (transitive)]

wind993

wieldOE

aweldc1175

bewieldc1200

demeanc1300

use1340

plya1393

governc1405

exercite1475

apply1531

manage1590

sway1609

manipulate1834

wage1836

α.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. C3 But if..He be so mad to manage Armes with me, Then stay thou with him.

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxliv. 4 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 242 Prais'd bee the lord of might,..By whom my handes doe fight, My fingers mannage armes.

1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1191 These soldiors..managing their armes, whilest others hanged theirs by the wals.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 246 Hope is a louers staffe, walke hence with that And manage it, against despairing thoughts.

1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. xiv. 229 They..consume themselves in continual managing their pen, and even killing themselves with perpetual study.

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 73 This way of handling may seem a preposterous posture to mannage an Iron Tool in.

1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 104 He trusts most to his Head,..and does manage it with as much Skill and Force, as any Bull or Ram.

1776 Falconer's Dict. Marine Thwart, the seat or bench of a boat whereon the rowers sit to manage the oars.

1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 83 But Lancelot on him urged..How best to manage horse, lance, sword and shield.

1894 C. H. H. Parry Stud. Great Composers: Schubert 224 The German..however much he manages his language can never make it as purely beautiful in sound as an Italian.

1983 D. Craig /A/: Art of drawing Sword vi. 98 The genuine beginner knows nothing about the way of holding and managing the sword.

β. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V6^v A comely personage, That in his hand a white rod menaged.1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) ii. 218 I..understand that these [stone balls]..have been in like manner menaged,..as particularly one of them over Adrianople gate..was menaged just before Mahomet 3d who..rewarded the man well.

†b. intransitive. To operate, perform, or manoeuvre with a weapon, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or control > [verb (intransitive)]

manage1591

1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching Ep. f. 3 Though I cannot as he mannadge with my courtlax.

c. transitive. To handle or pilot (a ship, boat, craft, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)]

governa1387

sail1566

manure1569

manage1600

carry1613

navigate1652

work1667

skipper1883

1600 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 525 Our men..died continually, and..we were scantly able to manage [1569, etc. manure] our shippe.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xix. 526 The wind..oft put us to our trumps to manage the Ship.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxv. 527 They acquired..the art, or rather the habit, of managing their boats in a tempestuous sea.

1823 T. C. Grattan High-ways & By-ways (ed. 2) I. 9 One solitary barge, managed by a single boatman, was working its way against the current.

1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vii. v. 307 She must use all her skill and power to manage the boat.

1908 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Spanish Gold 11 He looked like a man who might make a wreck of a boat through incapacity to manage her.

1992 V. Vinge Fire upon Deep iii. xxxviii. 337 He had managed spacecraft and weapons that could have reduced the feudal empire below to slag.

a. transitive. To take charge of, control, or direct (a household, institution, business, state, etc.). Also intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer

steerc888

leadc1175

guyc1330

guidec1374

governa1382

ministera1382

treat1387

administer1395

dispose1398

skift?a1400

warda1400

solicit1429

to deal with1469

handlea1470

execute1483

convoy?a1513

conveyc1515

mayne1520

to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1522

keepa1535

administrate1538

solicitate1547

to dispose of1573

manure1583

carry1600

manage1609

negotiate1619

conduct1632

to carry on1638

mesnage1654

nurse1745

work1841

operate1850

run1857

stage-manage1906

ramrod1920

α.

1609 Sir T. Smith's Common-wealth (rev. ed.) i. xxiv. 42 To speake of the Commonwealth or policy of England, it is gouerned, administred, and mannaged [1583–1601 manured] by three sorts of persons.

1672 Collins in S. P. Rigaud Corr. Sc. Men (1841) I. 201 To manage the Farthing Office, to deliver out all, that are coined..in crown-papers ready tied up.

1709 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 75 Trustees for manageing and takeing care of the said charity schoole.

1787 in J. R. Commons et al. Documentary Hist. Amer. Industr. Society (1910) I. vii. 323 Great Encouragement will be given to an Overseer of a sober industrious Character, to manage a Rice and Lumber Plantation.

1842 S. Atkinson Chancery Pract. 270 In every order directing the appointment of a receiver of landed estate, there shall be inserted a direction that such receiver shall manage as well as let and set.

1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 15 If the household were rightly managed.

1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 190 I have remarked again and again that a democracy cannot manage an empire.

1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xxiii. 193 Sometimes I wish he would take over this pesky garden and let me manage the restaurant.

1991 Investors Chron. 26 July 48/2 CFB is contracted to manage the company for a period of seven years in return for fees.

β. 1670 R. Graham Angliæ Speculum Morale 90 You must bid fair for her [sc. an Heiress] to those who menage her.a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 28 What Intervals of time, they have..in menaging of their Flocks.

b. transitive. To organize the activities of (a person or group of people), esp. in sport or entertainment; to act as manager (manager n. 4b) to.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer > activities

manage1928

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (transitive)] > manage (a performer)

farm1850

manage1928

society > leisure > sport > training > train or coach [verb (transitive)] > manage

manage1928

1928 Weekly Disp. 20 May 14/4 Nowadays the potential star has to be managed and publicised.

1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 11/5 Francois Descamps, who will in future manage him, told me later..that Jeans looks..like a potential champion.

1975 Economist 3 May 28/3 Fulham are managed by an elderly asthmatic who..sold his two best players for £250,000 at the end of 1973.

1989 Q Dec. 12/3 McVey has managed Cherry throughout the year.

†7. transitive. to manage out: to equip and send out (a boat). Cf. man v. 1b. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > equip send out

to manage out1638

1638 J. Underhill Newes from Amer. 28 Hee had managed out a Pinace.

†8.

a. transitive. To deal with or treat carefully; to use sparingly or with judgement; to husband (one's health, life, money, etc.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)] > treat carefully

manage1649

society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (transitive)]

savea1450

to stand upon ——1603

niggle1630

manage1649

1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions ii. i. 96 Now the same God that hath ordained Soveraigne powers to judge of, and protect the life of others, hath given weighty charge to every man to tender and manage his owne.

1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode Prol. sig. Ai^v [She] manages her last Half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot, for Air.

1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 30 A Man, as he manages himself, may dye Old at Thirty, and a Child at Fourscore.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 570 He spurs amidst the Foes; Not managing the Life he meant to lose.

1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons v. 48 Yet, we may manage a sickly Constitution, and preserve a strong one.

1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. vii. 99 I began to..think the Honour of my own Kind not worth managing.

1733–4 G. Berkeley Let. 17 Mar. in Wks. (1871) IV. 218 I am obliged to manage my health, and I have many things to do.

1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Manage,..4. To treat with caution or sparingly; to husband.]

b. transitive. To treat (a person) with indulgence or consideration. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > be courteous to [verb (transitive)] > be accommodating or complaisant with

comply1641

manage1714

accommodate1785

1714 J. Swift Let. to Ld. Bolingbroke 7 Aug. I do not find there is any intention of managing you in the least.

1727 J. Oldmixon Clarendon & Whitlock Compar'd v. 281 If the Parliament of England had manag'd them with the least Complacency.

c. intransitive. To act with consideration for others. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 78 He temporised; he managed.

†9. transitive. To convey by some mechanism or contrivance. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 423 How can we conceive that these solid stones..were managed hither..over a mountainous Countrey?

10.

a. transitive. To deal or cope with; to tackle; to produce, bring about, or bring to pass, by contrivance, with effort, or with difficulty.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > manage to secure (a result)

to make shift of1504

temporize1596

manage1654

to have (also get, want, etc.) a run for one's money1839

to pull off1860

1654 H. Haggar Order of Causes 16 The common Objections are raised against the word [all men] and the word [every man,] the word [world]... Which are managed thus: that Christ died for [all] the [Elect] for [every] one of the Elect for the [world] of [believers,][etc.].

1722 D. Defoe Relig. Courtship i. i. 31 What, says he, Child, is to be done in the Affair while I am gone?.. I know not how it will be managed, but I believe she will see him no more.

1733 J. Swift On Poetry 7 Consult yourself..What subject you can manage best.

1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 69 It seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iii. 21 He managed a couple of plates full of strawberries and cream, and twenty-four little rout cakes.

1894 ‘A. Hope’ Prisoner of Zenda viii. 107 In spite of the people and servants who were hanging about, I doubt not that they managed a tête-à-tête.

1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 805/1 [I can] occasionally manage places which are too much for the average snipe-shooter.

1919 Outing Mar. 299/1 By dint of much shifting I finally managed a pose or two.

1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. v. 95 I can usually manage a tart's holiday at Cannes or Ischia.

1991 Scottish Rugby Feb. 43/3 In fact none of the Ayrshire or Glasgow schools managed a home draw.

b. intransitive. To succeed (despite difficulties) in accomplishing a task; to cope or get by (esp. financially); to contrive to get on with something which is barely adequate.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > act or live through difficulties

scamblec1571

scramble1670

shift1723

manage1762

scrub1831

to struggle on1837

scratch1838

widdle1844

to worry along1871

to scrape along1884

to get by1908

scuffle1939

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > conduct affairs > deal with a matter > competently

wielda1500

to make good (also quick, sure, etc.) worka1616

manage1762

cope with1934

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > have recourse [verb (intransitive)] > make do with what is available

doc1300

scamble1608

to make the best of a bad bargain1670

shift1680

fenda1682

to do with ——1715

manage1762

to make do1927

1762 G. G. Beekman Let. 3 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 413 How I Shall manage About the Duty of the Coco I Cant yet Say.

1854 M. L. Charlesworth Ministering Children iv. 47 Rose was..wondering how William would manage about getting some logs for Mercy's fire.

1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy Did xi. 195 I've been thinking how we are to manage about the housekeeping.

1898 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession iii. 212 Not one of them getting wages enough to live on. How d'ye suppose most of them manage?

1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd iii. 75 Well, if he's badly hurt, there'll be the Union-pay, and sick-pay—we shall manage.

1962 Guardian 12 Jan. 8/7 During the first year twins often have to manage with less ‘mothering’ than other babies.

1995 Independent 2 Feb. 17/5 Businesses ponder whether they could manage with smaller head offices by ‘hot desking’.

c. transitive. With infinitive. To be successful or skilful enough to do something, usually with difficulty or in the face of adversity. Also (ironic): to be unfortunate or unskilful enough to do something particularly foolish or disadvantageous (cf. contrive v.¹ 6b).

ΚΠ

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xvii. 79 The chambermaid had left no ******* *** under the bed... Cannot you manage, my dear, for a single time to **** *** ** *** ******?

1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands ix. 96 Timber..which being cut down at the back of the island and roughed off, they could easily manage to bring round.

1838 W. C. Macready Reminisc. 3 Aug. (1875) II. 117 I find I managed to lose..£2,500.

1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. vii. 208 She is sharp enough; she could manage to coax it out of him, if she chose.

1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 400 His plays are among the very few modern productions which manage to keep the stage.

1895 Bookman Oct. 33/1 After gaining any diplomatic success he managed to neutralise the effects of it by some act of fatuous folly.

1943 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Aug. 4/6 During this exchange of fire, a Japanese plane had managed to get on the tail of Captain Walter's Warhawk.

1970 M. Moorcock Chinese Agent xiii. 87 When he had been called up, he'd managed to desert.

1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. i. 18 He had not noticed that in the course of luncheon he had managed to button a napkin into his fly.

11. transitive. Formerly: to cultivate, till (land). Later: to maintain and control (the environment, an area, forest, nature reserve, etc.). Also: to conserve (natural resources such as game, fish, timber, wildlife, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)]

eareOE

till1377

plough1423

break1499

sheugh1513

ayrec1540

to break up1557

furrow1576

spit1648

whelm1652

manage1655

hack1732

thorough1733

to plough in1764

rout1836

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 6 As much as one plow can handsomely manage.

1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiv. 303 Who then thy master, say? and whose the land So dress'd and manag'd by thy skilful hand?

1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. iv. 47 It may be increased by managing the soil in such a manner, as to enable it to attract this food in greater plenty.

1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 112 The lowest size of a Wiltshire down farm, that can be managed to advantage, is a good six horse business.

1843 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 11. 64 The farmer and his family..managed their limited mailings, without extrinsic aid.

1891 H. Spencer Justice 270 Those who manage the land, experience a direct connexion between effort and benefit.

1949 Act 12 & 13 Geo. VI c. 97 §15 The expression ‘nature reserve’ means land managed for the purpose..of [etc.].

1990 Amer. Horticulturist Sept. 12/1 The game department manages the area for deer, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, and other game and nongame species.

1993 Village Voice (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 5/1 Conservationists..manage wildlife for the good of animals as well as the public.

12.

a. transitive. To win the consent or acquiescence of (a person) by artifice, flattery, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > wheedle, coax, or cajole

fleechc1425

coyc1490

flatter?a1513

cuittlec1565

smooth1584

ingle1602

cajole1645

collogue1660

wheedle1661

coax1663

to wheedle with1664

to cajole with1665

manage1677

whilly1721

carney1811

whillywha1816

canoodle1864

patise1891

schmear1910

sweet-talk1936

soft-talk1946

snow-job1962

β.

1677 O. Walker Of Educ. (ed. 3) i. ix. 92 He embraceth the lies and flatteries of such as thereby gain and menage him.

α. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem ii. 13 London, dear London is the Place for managing and breaking a Husband.1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 444. ¶4 The Art of managing Mankind, is only to make them stare a little.1777 A. Hamilton Let. 5 Apr. in Papers (1961) I. 221 He managed them with a good deal of address, and sent them away perfectly satisfied.1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. i. 4 Managing mankind by studying their tempers and humouring their weaknesses.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 223 The chief agent who was employed by the government to manage the Presbyterians was Vincent Alsop.1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 48 Managing one's husband is some pleasure.1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread v. 125 His mother knew how to manage him. He agreed enthusiastically.1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes v. 64 Your Grandmother could manage him. She always knew the right moment to speak.

†b. transitive. To persuade (a person) to do something; to persuade (a person) towards some objective. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > persuade into an action

manage1702

to gain into1756

suck1771

β.

1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. vii. x, in Wks. 205 With certain Hints, how they were to Menage the Heads of the Tribe of Judah toward his Restauration.

α. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 580 He..was so frighted, that he was easily managed to pretend to discover any thing that was suggested to him.

13. transitive. To manipulate or tamper with in order to deceive; to adulterate, doctor.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [verb (transitive)] > treat, adulterate, or flavour

abuse1574

trick1594

juniperate1605

parel1615

part1682

pearl1682

manage1686

load1860

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1686 S. Fuller tr. Cicero in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch Lives V. 301 Sylla..preferr'd a Process against Roscius for the [word missing] of his Father, Chrysogonus managing the evidence.

1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 549 The art of managing or, according to the familiar phrase, doctoring wines.

1987 Times 3 Oct. 10/7 Their complaint boils down to the fact that Woodward has managed the news.

1991 Nation (N.Y.) 11 Feb. 148/2 The White House and the Pentagon manipulate an all-too-compliant press corps and manage the news down to the briefest bite.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	manage
释义	managen.² Brit. /ˈmanɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈmænɪdʒ/ Forms: α. 1500s manedge, 1500s–1600s manadge, 1500s–1600s manege, 1500s–1600s mannage, 1500s– manage, 1600s mannadge. β. 1500s– menage, 1600s mennage, 1800s ménage (irregular). See also manège n. Origin: Either (i) formed within English, by conversion. Or (ii) a borrowing from Italian. Etymons: manage v.; Italian maneggio. Etymology: Either < manage v. or < Italian maneggio (1590 in sense 2c; early 16th cent. in sense ‘astute dealing’, 1526 in sense ‘management’; > French manège (1606 (in form manegge ) in sense ‘dexterity’, 1611 in sense ‘place for exercising horses’, 1671 in sense ‘artful trick’)) < maneggiare manage v.Derivation directly < Italian maneggio is less likely because the latter is attested in the sense ‘place for exercising horses, action of exercising horses’ only from 1590 (and French manège (borrowed from the Italian word) is not attested in the same sense until 1611). Additionally, the assimilation of the ending to the English form -age in the earliest examples is easier to explain if it is assumed that the noun is a derivative of the verb, since Italian words with penultimate stress and final -io generally retained them when borrowed into English at this date. Sense 2 was replaced in the 17th cent. by the French equivalent manège , which is now usual: see manège n. The β. forms probably arose from a confusion, on the part of English writers, of this word with French menage act of leading < mener to lead; there is also some evidence of confusion with French ménage household: see ménage n. 1. a. The action of controlling or manipulating a person, animal, etc.; the exercise of control. Also in extended use. Frequently with reference to sense 2b. archaic in later use (echoing Spenser). ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > controlling manage?1578 controlling1651 α. ?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 30 His mare in hiz mannage did a littl so titubate, that mooch a doo had hiz manhod too sit in his sadl, & too scape the foyl of a fall. 1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Ii2^v And let me forth vnto my full ca[r]ire, On places slippery, and my manage ill. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 69 My Lord shees not pac'ste yet, you must take some paines to worke her to your mannage . View more context for this quotation 1691 J. Wilson Belphegor i. iii Do but bring him to the right manage at first; humour him in every thing,..and the rest follows. 1739 W. Warburton Comm. Pope's Ess. Man in Hist. Wks. Learned Feb. 92 Till the Horse and the Ox come to know why they undergo such different Manage and Fortunes in the Hand of Man. 1755 E. Young Centaur v. 227 Beasts of so gross a class as they [sc. certain persons mentioned] choose to rank with, scarce deserve to be brought to the Manage. 2007 A. Zurcher Spenser's Legal Lang. i. 1 Summoning a dream from hell, and joining it to the manage of a ‘fair-forg'd sprite’. β. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. xii. sig. Oo4^v The winged God him selfe Came riding on a Lion rauenous, Taught to obay the menage of that Elfe.1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 31 Rude Thought runs wild in Contemplation's Field; Converse, the Menage, breaks it to the Bit Of due Restraint.1902 F. E. Schelling Eng. Chron. Play 240 The great horse of the Spenserian allegory had a pace beyond his [sc. Dekker's] menage. †b. Management; the action or manner of managing, administering, or directing; the conduct of business, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > management or administration dispositionc1374 ministrationc1390 disposing1406 procuration?a1425 guidingc1425 economy?1440 conduct1454 solicitation1492 regimenta1500 mayning1527 enterprisea1533 handlinga1538 conduction1565 manyment1567 disposure1569 conveyance1572 managing1579 disposement1583 government1587 carriage1589 manage1591 steerage1597 management1598 steering1599 manurance1604 fixing1605 dispose1611 administry?1616 husbandry1636 dispensatorship1637 admin1641 managery1643 disposal1649 mesnagery1653 contrectation1786 conducting1793 wielding1820 managership1864 operation1872 operating1913 case management1918 α. 1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. iv. 176 Mutianus..drewe the whole manage of affaires into his owne handes. ?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda sig. E4 Wilt thou be our Lieutenant there, And further vs in manage of these wars? 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. iv. 25 Lorenso I commit into your hands, The husbandry and mannage of my house. View more context for this quotation 1612 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 138 Young men in the conduct and mannage of Actions, embrace more then they can hold. 1617 J. Hales Serm. Oxf. 17 The greatnesse of the businesse, the manage of which they vndertake. 1642 J. Hales Tract conc. Schisme 1 Howsoever in the common manage, Heresie and Schisme are but ridiculous tearmes. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 667 That they might..consult of the further manage of the War. 1680 J. Oldham in Earl of Rochester et al. Poems 121 Fools..Who..justly forfeit all that praise..Which we by our wise Manage, from a Sin can raise. 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 95 St. Peter had the keys given to him, and that by our Saviour himself, who had never entrusted him, except he had known him capable of their manage, and custody. 1689 J. Collier Moral Ess. conc. Pride 45 The manage of his Employment is not prescribed by the Rector. 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans I. 95 His opinion was not more against her humour, than his manage of it was to her mind. β. 1665 I. Walton Life of Hooker 39 [Queen Elizabeth] having experimented his wisdom..in the menage of her affairs..she made him archbishop of Canterbury.1665 I. Walton Life of Hooker 83 Revenge is so pleasing, that man is hardly persuaded to submit the menage of it to the..wisdom of his Creator.1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode i. i. 17 For the mennage of a family, I know it better than any Lady in Sicily.1710 S. Palmer Moral Ess. Prov. 7 Among all the errors..in our menage, nothing is more dangerous than entring into bonds. †c. Power of management. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1639 N. N. tr. J. Du Bosc Compl. Woman i. 40 The spirits which are without manage, in their enterprises, are also without courage in their afflictions. †d. An administrative duty or office. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > duties > [noun] > administrative manage1651 1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. D2 [He] gave him imployment in congregations, and other manages more frequently then was usuall. 2. Horse Riding. Now usually manège: see manège n. 2. †a. The movements in which a horse is trained in a riding school; any of the separate movements characteristic of a horse so trained; spec. a short gallop at full speed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > [noun] manage1577 air1607 manège1768 action1805 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by speed or gait > [noun] > type(s) of gait > gallop > short or sudden manage1577 career1591 burst1789 α. 1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1663/2 They were better practised to fetch in booties, than to make their manege or Carere. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Countercuffe sig. Aiij It should seeme by the manages my beast made, that hee knewe his Maister had a speciall peece of seruice in hande. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Cij^v Howe souldier-like hee made an ende of his manage with a double rest. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Air In horsemanship, a doing, or stirring manage, or manage raised aboue ground. à demy air, a certaine curuet, or manage, wherein the halfe of a horse is in the aire, the other on the ground. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Passade The manage for combat, or souldiors manage. 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. ii. 58 Manage with rest, and manage without rest, manage with single turnes, and manage with double turnes. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. i. 11 His horses..are taught their mannage . View more context for this quotation 1659 Duke of Newcastle Let. 13 May in E. Nicholas Papers (1920) IV. 125 One off my horses of manege, which will bee the quieteste..hee or anye man can haue. 1770 G. Baretti Journey London to Genoa (ed. 3) I. 175 By Bellém there is a noble structure..where the King's horses are educated for the manage. a1807 W. Wordsworth Prelude (1959) x. 370 The horse is taught his manage. β. 1617 Bp. J. Hall Quo Vadis? (new ed.) xiii. 41 The horse is a noble creature... There is a double kinde of menage..one for seruice, the other for pleasure.a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 330 One of his sonns riding the Menage with that addresse..as I had never seene any thing approch it.1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 640/1 She trained her youth as the colt is trained to the menage. †b. The training, handling, and directing of a horse. With the: the art of training and managing horses. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [noun] > keeper or manager > horse-breaking or -training managea1586 managery1685 school1705 schooling1753 manège1768 backing1783 lunging1833 horse-taming1836 dressage1912 α. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella (1591) 21 My horse..now hath made me to his hand so right, That in the manage my selfe do take delight. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. iv. 49 Speake tearmes of mannage to thy bounding steed. View more context for this quotation a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. vi. 69 The hot horse..Forgets schoole dooing, being therein traind, And of kind mannadge. 1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle ii. 65 His chief pastime and divertisement consisted in the Mannage of the two afore mentioned Horses. 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xv. 823 A Horseman..(Skill'd in the Manage of the bounding Steed). 1864 London Rev. 28 May It is the menage, the education of the animal, that gives him half his value. 1876 E. Dowden Poems 67 I know the careless grace My Perseus wears in manage of the steed. β. 1776 H. Brooke Fool of Quality (rev. ed.) IV. 314 [He] rode out with him, and taught him the menage.1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 313 What in the language of the ménage is called the line of the banquet. c. An enclosed space for the training of horses and for the practice of horsemanship; a riding school. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > riding school riding house1631 manage1655 riding schoola1680 manège1705 school1705 managery1782 α. 1655 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. I. iii. 67 How many courses will the manage hold. 1684 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 400 Mr. Faubert having newly railed in a Manage & fitted it for the Academy, I went..to see the Young Gallants do their Exercise. 1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour II. 432 The bishop has built a manage or riding house. 1811 Edw. Earl Clarendon's Relig. & Policy Advt. Henry Viscount Cornbury..by a codicil to his will, dated Aug. 10. 1751. left divers MSS. of his great grandfather Edward Earl of Clarendon..with a direction that the money to arise from the..publication..should be employed ‘as a beginning of a Fund for supporting a Manage or Academy for riding..in Oxford’. 1848 C. Kingsley Saint's Trag. i. i. 192 They are waiting For you in the manage-school, to give your judgment On that new Norman mare. β. 1684 Scanderbeg Redivivus i. 7 He diligently applied himself to the best Exercises, as frequenting the Academies, Fencing, the Menage, &c.1975 E. Baird Illustr. Guide Riding viii. 61 Ask for the extension of trot on the long side of the school or menage.1986 Horse & Rider Sept. 59/4 (advt.) In-door school. All weather menage, x-country course. †3. Bearing, demeanour, or conduct. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > demeanour or bearing i-bereOE i-letelOE lundc1175 semblanta1240 countenancec1290 fare1297 porturec1300 bearinga1325 portc1330 abearc1350 demeaning14.. habit1413 apporta1423 havingsa1425 maintenance?c1436 demeanc1450 maintain?1473 deport1474 maintaining1477 demeanance1486 affair1487 containing1487 behaviour1490 representation1490 haviour?1504 demeanour1509 miena1522 function1578 amenance1590 comportance1590 portance1590 purport1590 manage1593 style1596 dispose1601 deportments1603 comportment1605 garb1605 aira1616 deportment1638 comport1660 tour1702 sway1753 disport1761 maintien1814 tenue1828 portment1833 allure1841 1593 G. Harvey New Let. Notable Contents sig. B4^v His talke was sweet, his Order fine; his whole menage braue. 4. The skilful handling of a weapon, etc. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > skill or skilfulness > [noun] > a bodily skill > manual skill > dexterity hagherlaikc1175 sleight1390 sleight of handa1500 dexterity1548 manage1598 dexterousness1622 neat-handedness1839 α. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades ii. 36 For the manadge of his lance, he generall praise did winne. 1633 J. Ford Broken Heart iv. i. sig. I The sonne of Venus hath bequeath'd his quiuer To Ithocles his manage. 1687 London Gaz. No. 2276/5 The Satisfaction of seeing what..Address he had in the manage of his Horse and Arms. 1720 D. Manley Power of Love vi. 332 To learn his Exercises..and the Manage of the Sword. 1926 H. D. Sedgwick tr. F. Guicciardini in Hist. Spain xix. 153 Good at the manage of arms. β. 1670 R. Graham Angliæ Speculum Morale 145 Each striving to go beyond the other..in the dextrous..menage of his Weapon. †5. Treatment; a manner or style of dealing with a person or thing. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] workinga1382 impression1390 actiona1398 affection1489 suppressiona1500 operation1525 influence1598 effect1608 manage1608 solicitation1626 attingency1642 influx1644 influency1651 incidence1656 attingence1678 influencing1754 impact1817 the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > behaviour towards another or treatment entreatisea1513 treaturea1513 behaviour?1521 entreaty1525 entreating1529 entreatance1534 usage1536 entertainment1547 demeanour1548 tractation1548 treatingc1550 treatmentc1560 entreatment1563 demean1596 carriage1598 manage1608 measure1611 quarter1615 treaty1631 treatance1644 meanora1670 treat1671 comportment1697 1608 G. Chapman Trag. Duke of Byron iv, in Conspiracie Duke of Byron sig. N2 There is one sort of manadge for the Great, Another for inferiour. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §327 Quick-silver will not endure the Mannage of the Fire. †6. A plan. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [noun] > a plan redeeOE devicec1290 casta1300 went1303 ordinancec1385 intentc1386 imaginationa1393 drifta1535 draught1535 forecast1535 platform1547 ground-plat?a1560 table1560 convoy1565 design1565 plat1574 ground-plota1586 plot1587 reach1587 theory1593 game1595 projectment1611 projecting1616 navation1628 approach1633 view1634 plan1635 systema1648 sophism1657 manage1667 brouillon1678 speculationa1684 sketch1697 to take measures1698 method1704 scheme1704 lines1760 outline1760 measure1767 restorative1821 ground plan1834 strategy1834 programme1837 ticket1842 project1849 outline plan1850 layout1867 draft1879 dart1882 lurk1916 schema1939 lick1955 1667 J. Glanvill Philos. Considerations Witches 31 The policy and menages of the instruments of darkness. a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 82 Our ignorance of the reasons, and menages of Providence. Compounds † manage horse n. Obsolete a horse trained in the manège; a dressage horse. ΚΠ 1667 Duchess of Newcastle Life Duke of Newcastle ii. 106 Grange-Horses, Hackny-Horses, Manage-Horses,..and others. 1729 J. Vanderbank (title) Twenty five actions of the manage horse, engrav'd by Josephus Sympson. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). managev. Brit. /ˈmanɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈmænɪdʒ/ Forms: α. 1500s mannedge, 1500s 1700s manege (in sense 2), 1500s–1700s mannadge, 1500s–1700s mannage, 1500s– manage, 1600s manadge; Scottish 1800s– mainage, 1800s– manage, 1900s– manies, 1900s– manis, 1900s– manish, 1900s– maunish. β. 1500s–1700s menage; Scottish pre-1700 menadge, pre-1700 menage, pre-1700 minnage. Origin: A borrowing from Italian. Etymon: Italian maneggiare. Etymology: < Italian maneggiare to handle (1298–1309), to be able to use skilfully, to manage, to direct or exercise a horse (14th cent.; > Spanish manejar to manage, use, manipulate (1591)), probably < an unattested post-classical Latin verb < classical Latin manus hand (see manus n.¹) + post-classical Latin -izare -ize suffix. Compare French manier (see manner n.).Recorded earlier than the cognate manage n.² Although the earliest attested form in English is manege , the ending was, as in the noun, already in the 16th cent. assimilated to the English ending -age . In the late 17th and early 18th cent. the form menage was chiefly used where the sense was close to that of Middle French, French †mesnager (French ménager : see mesnage v.; 1567 in sense ‘to administer’, 1570 in senses ‘to spare’, and ‘to arrange with care’, 1628–30 in sense ‘to treat with consideration’). It is also likely that this French verb influenced the sense-development of the English word: in the writings of Dryden and his contemporaries, there are frequent uses of manage (as well as the form menage) which appear to be consciously modelled on the French word. 1. a. transitive. To control (a person or animal); to exert one's authority or rule over. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] wieldeOE redeOE temperc1000 wisc1000 yemec1000 aweldc1175 guy13.. rule1340 attemperc1374 stightlea1375 justifya1393 governa1400 moder1414 control1495 moderate1534 rein1557 manage1560 sway1587 to bear (a rein) upon1603 bridle1615 ephorize1647 puppet1840 coact1855 boss1856 run1869 swing1873 1560 A. L. tr. J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias i. 6 We must alwai haue in remembrance, that which is spoken that god placeth men here onely to mannage them, & to make them to fetch their compasses (as thei say) & sodenly to turne againe. 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. i And full three Sommers likewise shall he waste In mannaging those fierce barbarian mindes. 1657 Bp. J. Taylor Disc. Friendship (ed. 2) 194 Our absolution does but..comfort and instruct your Conscience, direct and manage it. 1694 J. Addison St. Cecilia's Day in Ann. Misc. 136 Musick..With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the Man with secret Art. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones II. vi. xiv. 324 Women are the properest to manage Women. View more context for this quotation 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman x. 347 Unless the understanding of woman be enlarged..she will never have sufficient sense or command of temper to manage her children properly. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits iv. 40 His attachment to the horse arises from the courage and address required to manage it. 1867 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood I. ix. 180 My mother..was the only one that ever could manage him. 1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent iii. 77 ‘I don't know how to manage him,’ Mr Verloc explained, peevishly. ‘Won't do to leave him downstairs alone with the lights.’ 1989 Fast Forward 18 Oct. 22/3 If you want your pooch to be perfect or be able to manage your mutt, then here's a tip. b. transitive. Originally and chiefly Medicine. To control or relieve (a disease or disorder); to look after (a patient, case, or client) as appropriate. Also, esp. in later use: to provide or coordinate (a suitable course of action for the care of a such a person). ΚΠ 1906 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Jan. 63 The patient's syphilophobia had..increased to such a degree that it became extremely difficult to manage the case. 1964 A. Schlossman in A. Sorby Mod. Ophthalmol. III. 141 Pleoptics..has its greatest value in the treatment of the large number of patients with eccentric fixation who cannot be managed by any other form of therapy. 1993 Brit. Jrnl. Surg. 80 103/2 This report embraces all cases of choledocholithiasis managed by one surgeon since laparoscopic cholecystectomy was introduced as the routine management for gallbladder stones in June 1990. 1994 Guardian 9 Feb. 13 The role of the case manager is to ‘manage’ people's illness, keeping them in the community and out of psychiatric wards whenever possible. c. transitive. to manage (a person) out of: to force out or away; to expel. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > let or send out [verb (transitive)] > expel afferreOE warpc1000 outdriveOE wreakc1100 to cast out1297 to cast fortha1382 out-chasec1395 flecchea1400 to shoot forth, out, awaya1400 propel?1440 expulse?a1475 scour1488 out-thrust1532 to catch forthc1540 propulse1548 pulsec1550 unplant1552 to turn out of ——1562 extrude1566 detrude?1567 eliminate1568 deturbate1570 detruse1571 unroost1598 to put by1600 deturb1609 bolt1615 run1631 disembogue1632 out of1656 expel1669 rout1812 to manage (a person) out of1907 1907 Smart Set Mar. 83/1 You're the sly rascal..to manage Mr. Leidermann out of the road so well. 1991 Independent (Bombay) 6 Dec. 1/2 He managed Senior Sena leader Chhagan Bhujbal, out of the party fold. †2. Horse Riding. a. transitive. To train or direct (a horse); to put (a horse) through the exercises of the manège (manège n. 2). Cf. sense 1a. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > [verb (transitive)] > training horses in specific ways manage1561 pace1595 school1608 way1639 supple1753 traffic-proof1971 α. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer i. sig. D.iii^v It is the peculyer prayse of vs Italians..to manege wyth reason, especiallye roughe horses. 1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 226 Behold how..Lorde Frederike..rid on his horse..sometimes with curuettes..did so manage him, that it was a meruailous..spectacle to the beholders. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 6 Having a while gently mannaged him [sc. the horse] without finding him any way disobedient. a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 25 How shall we Spend the Day? Manage the lustie Steed? Or see the Eager Hounds pursue the pray? 1771 R. Berenger Hist. & Art Horsemanship I. 169 They [sc. the horses] all having been carefully handled, dressed, or maneged as we call it. β. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G3^v A goodly person, and could menage faire His stubborne steed with curbed canon bitt.1683 T. Hoy Agathocles 8 An Hard-mouth'd Beast, for slacken'd Raines unfitt, And must be menag'd with the Spur and Bitt. b. intransitive. Of a horse: to perform an exercise of the manège (manège n. 2). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > special movements performed by trained horse > perform special movements [verb (intransitive)] manage1605 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 156 A large and mighty-limbed Steed..Can neuer mannage halfe so readilie As Spanish Iennet. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 16 Being able to passe a short carreire, to manage, beat a coruet and such like. 1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue i. 41 The Horse Which standing still too-long..Forgets to manage. 1615 G. Markham Countrey Contentments i. ii. 57 You shall then teach him to manage, which is the only posture for the vse of the sword on horse-backe. 1650 Earl of Monmouth tr. J. F. Senault Man become Guilty 271 He [sc. Man] taught the horse to manage, and forced the noblest of creatures to endure the bit and spur. 1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth IV. 10 [A horse speaks.] I could both Manage, Stop and Turn. 3. a. transitive. To conduct, carry on, supervise, or control (a war, undertaking, operation, affair, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > practice, exercise, or doing > practise or carry on [verb (transitive)] doeOE followOE holda1100 found1340 exercec1374 enhaunta1382 usea1398 proceed1399 apply?c1400 practise?c1430 exercise1467 takea1500 plya1513 enure1549 prosecute1567 inurea1577 manage1579 to stand on ——1599 to carry on1638 cultivate1654 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupy or engage (a person) [verb (transitive)] > conduct (an affair) demeanc1315 to see for ——1405 to go in hand with (also to do something)c1450 treatc1450 behavea1529 ordera1535 handle1548 manage1579 to bear forth1631 conduct1632 α. 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin viii. 428 We managed many yeres agaynst the terrible enemie and tyrant of the Turks. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne ii. li. 29 But let vs menage war with blowes, like knights. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iv. ii. 15 Thou hauing made me Businesses, (which none (without thee) can sufficiently manage ). View more context for this quotation 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. ii §50. 471/1 Theodora..after the death of Constantine, managed for two years the affairs of the Empire. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 103 Our Surgeon was very skilful in managing their Cure. 1798 J. Austen Let. 1 Dec. (1995) 24 Mary does not manage matters in such a way as to make me want to lay in myself. 1818 Lady Morgan in Passages from Autobiogr. (1859) 60 So you see, my dear Olivia, they manage these things better in France. 1841 T. B. Macaulay Warren Hastings in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 240 When Parliament met in the following winter, the Commons proceeded to elect a committee for managing the impeachment. 1881 Cent. Mag. Dec. 263/2 A student elected by the others to manage all their common affairs. 1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxv. 331 Philip envied the easy way in which the painter managed his love affairs. 1995 Minnesota Monthly Jan. 100/1 While preparing your will you can also give someone power of attorney to manage your affairs. β. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxvii. 227 Who should giue them their commission but he whose most inward affaires they menage?1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxxi. 259 They are able to dispose and menage their owne affaires. †b. intransitive. To conduct affairs; to plot, scheme, or intrigue. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] > manage or administrate administrate1567 lead1579 manage1603 carrya1616 conduct1677 to fix it1836 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > conduct affairs manage1603 the mind > will > intention > planning > plotting > plot [verb (intransitive)] subtlec1300 conspire1393 compass1430 malign?a1439 contrivec1440 machine?c1450 forthink1494 pretenda1500 practise1537 pack1568 brigue1580 machinate1602 manage1603 plot1607 tamper1607 faction1609 collogue1646 intriguea1714 to lay a scheme1826 scheme1842 angle1892 wheel and deal1961 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 229 He that enterteineth many friends, must of necessitie be conformable to them all: namely..with ambitious citizens, to sue and manage for offices [etc.]. 1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires x. 212 Intrust thy Fortune to the Pow'rs above. Leave them to manage for thee, and to grant What their unerring Wisdom sees thee want. 1791 A. Radcliffe Romance of Forest I. iv. 124 If I had not managed very cleverly, they would have found me out. 1860 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing (rev. ed.) iii. 49 It is as impossible in a book to teach a person in charge of sick how to manage, as it is to teach her how to nurse. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Grandmother ii Her father..Hadn't a head to manage, and drank himself into his grave. †c. transitive. To fulfil the duties of (an office). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > duties > [verb (transitive)] > discharge a duty or office officiate1615 serve1621 managea1627 to hold down1891 pull1941 a1627 J. Hayward Ann. Four Years Elizabeth (1840) 54 About 140 passed under the sword and amonge them 12 of name, either for nobilitie of birth and state, or for honorable places they mannaged in the armie. †d. intransitive. Of a matter, affair, etc.: to yield to being controlled or directed. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > be in control [verb (intransitive)] > manage or administrate > admit of being managed manage1631 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > conduct affairs > deal with a matter > admit of being dealt with manage1631 1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. iv. 66 in Wks. II Is't a Cleare businesse? will it mannage well? My name must not be vs'd else. e. transitive. To deal with or represent in a literary treatment. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > present by literary treatment beloukOE induce1484 handle1531 introduce1559 manage1697 write1781 plant1948 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. a3 I was loath to be inform'd..how a Tragedy shou'd be contriv'd and manag'd in better Verse..than I cou'd teach others. 1714 A. Pope Rape of Lock (new ed.) Ep. The Character of Belinda, as it is now manag'd, resembles You in nothing but in Beauty. 1776 W. J. Mickle Diss. Lusiad (1778) p. ccxviii If the man of taste..will be pleased to mark how the genius of a Virgil has managed a war after a Homer. 1994 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 Feb. 4/3 Gaddis is at his most Waugh-like in the formal grace with which he manages the wild disorder of the plot. 4. transitive. To administer or regulate the use or expenditure of (money, provisions, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer > the use of finances or provisions manage1589 1589 in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. (1833) I. ii. 330 I..sall minnage it [sc. money] in sik sort that..thair sall be fruite drawin thereof. 1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) i. 51 Mannage every one of his gifts to the closing of those miserable breaches which threaten an inundation of calamitie upon us all. 1683 Britanniæ Speculum 78 Besides these the Comes sacrarum largitionum, who managed the Emperors Finances. 1796 C. Lamb Let. 3 Oct. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 50 I can unconnect myself with him, & shall manage all my father's monies in future myself. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India II. iv. iv. 155 The provisions..had been managed without economy. 1909 C. H. Firth Last Years of Protectorate I. 8 The government had not managed the treasury unthriftily. 1969 Time 15 Aug. 60 No institution manages more ‘O.P.M.’, or Other People's Money, than Manhattan's 116-year-old United States Trust Co. 1991 Business Week 18 Nov. 35/1 (advt.) For most people, managing personal finances usually falls in the category of dog awful. 5. a. transitive. To handle, wield, or make use of (a weapon, tool, implement, etc.). †to manage arms (obsolete): to fight. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > contend in battle or give battle [verb (intransitive)] fightc900 to bid, offer, refuse, accept, take (arch.) battle1297 to do battle1297 to give battle1297 strive13.. battle1330 to instore a battle1382 fettlec1400 pugnec1425 toilc1425 to deliver battle1433 conflict?a1475 bargain1487 mellaya1500 liverc1500 to come out1511 field1535 combat1589 to manage arms1590 sway1590 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or control > [verb (transitive)] wind993 wieldOE aweldc1175 bewieldc1200 demeanc1300 use1340 plya1393 governc1405 exercite1475 apply1531 manage1590 sway1609 manipulate1834 wage1836 α. 1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. C3 But if..He be so mad to manage Armes with me, Then stay thou with him. c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxliv. 4 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 242 Prais'd bee the lord of might,..By whom my handes doe fight, My fingers mannage armes. 1610 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes (ed. 2) 1191 These soldiors..managing their armes, whilest others hanged theirs by the wals. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 246 Hope is a louers staffe, walke hence with that And manage it, against despairing thoughts. View more context for this quotation 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. xiv. 229 They..consume themselves in continual managing their pen, and even killing themselves with perpetual study. 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 73 This way of handling may seem a preposterous posture to mannage an Iron Tool in. 1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 104 He trusts most to his Head,..and does manage it with as much Skill and Force, as any Bull or Ram. 1776 Falconer's Dict. Marine Thwart, the seat or bench of a boat whereon the rowers sit to manage the oars. 1872 Ld. Tennyson Gareth & Lynette 83 But Lancelot on him urged..How best to manage horse, lance, sword and shield. 1894 C. H. H. Parry Stud. Great Composers: Schubert 224 The German..however much he manages his language can never make it as purely beautiful in sound as an Italian. 1983 D. Craig /A/: Art of drawing Sword vi. 98 The genuine beginner knows nothing about the way of holding and managing the sword. β. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V6^v A comely personage, That in his hand a white rod menaged.1675 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) ii. 218 I..understand that these [stone balls]..have been in like manner menaged,..as particularly one of them over Adrianople gate..was menaged just before Mahomet 3d who..rewarded the man well. †b. intransitive. To operate, perform, or manoeuvre with a weapon, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > use or control > [verb (intransitive)] manage1591 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching Ep. f. 3 Though I cannot as he mannadge with my courtlax. c. transitive. To handle or pilot (a ship, boat, craft, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > direct or manage ship [verb (transitive)] governa1387 sail1566 manure1569 manage1600 carry1613 navigate1652 work1667 skipper1883 1600 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) III. 525 Our men..died continually, and..we were scantly able to manage [1569, etc. manure] our shippe. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xix. 526 The wind..oft put us to our trumps to manage the Ship. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxv. 527 They acquired..the art, or rather the habit, of managing their boats in a tempestuous sea. 1823 T. C. Grattan High-ways & By-ways (ed. 2) I. 9 One solitary barge, managed by a single boatman, was working its way against the current. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss III. vii. v. 307 She must use all her skill and power to manage the boat. 1908 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Spanish Gold 11 He looked like a man who might make a wreck of a boat through incapacity to manage her. 1992 V. Vinge Fire upon Deep iii. xxxviii. 337 He had managed spacecraft and weapons that could have reduced the feudal empire below to slag. 6. a. transitive. To take charge of, control, or direct (a household, institution, business, state, etc.). Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer steerc888 leadc1175 guyc1330 guidec1374 governa1382 ministera1382 treat1387 administer1395 dispose1398 skift?a1400 warda1400 solicit1429 to deal with1469 handlea1470 execute1483 convoy?a1513 conveyc1515 mayne1520 to bear (a person or thing) in (also an, a, on) handa1522 keepa1535 administrate1538 solicitate1547 to dispose of1573 manure1583 carry1600 manage1609 negotiate1619 conduct1632 to carry on1638 mesnage1654 nurse1745 work1841 operate1850 run1857 stage-manage1906 ramrod1920 α. 1609 Sir T. Smith's Common-wealth (rev. ed.) i. xxiv. 42 To speake of the Commonwealth or policy of England, it is gouerned, administred, and mannaged [1583–1601 manured] by three sorts of persons. 1672 Collins in S. P. Rigaud Corr. Sc. Men (1841) I. 201 To manage the Farthing Office, to deliver out all, that are coined..in crown-papers ready tied up. 1709 in J. A. Picton City of Liverpool: Select. Munic. Rec. (1886) II. 75 Trustees for manageing and takeing care of the said charity schoole. 1787 in J. R. Commons et al. Documentary Hist. Amer. Industr. Society (1910) I. vii. 323 Great Encouragement will be given to an Overseer of a sober industrious Character, to manage a Rice and Lumber Plantation. 1842 S. Atkinson Chancery Pract. 270 In every order directing the appointment of a receiver of landed estate, there shall be inserted a direction that such receiver shall manage as well as let and set. 1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art i. 15 If the household were rightly managed. 1881 B. Jowett tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War I. 190 I have remarked again and again that a democracy cannot manage an empire. 1942 E. Paul Narrow Street xxiii. 193 Sometimes I wish he would take over this pesky garden and let me manage the restaurant. 1991 Investors Chron. 26 July 48/2 CFB is contracted to manage the company for a period of seven years in return for fees. β. 1670 R. Graham Angliæ Speculum Morale 90 You must bid fair for her [sc. an Heiress] to those who menage her.a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 28 What Intervals of time, they have..in menaging of their Flocks. b. transitive. To organize the activities of (a person or group of people), esp. in sport or entertainment; to act as manager (manager n. 4b) to. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [verb (transitive)] > manage or administer > activities manage1928 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (transitive)] > manage (a performer) farm1850 manage1928 society > leisure > sport > training > train or coach [verb (transitive)] > manage manage1928 1928 Weekly Disp. 20 May 14/4 Nowadays the potential star has to be managed and publicised. 1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 11/5 Francois Descamps, who will in future manage him, told me later..that Jeans looks..like a potential champion. 1975 Economist 3 May 28/3 Fulham are managed by an elderly asthmatic who..sold his two best players for £250,000 at the end of 1973. 1989 Q Dec. 12/3 McVey has managed Cherry throughout the year. †7. transitive. to manage out: to equip and send out (a boat). Cf. man v. 1b. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > equip send out to manage out1638 1638 J. Underhill Newes from Amer. 28 Hee had managed out a Pinace. †8. a. transitive. To deal with or treat carefully; to use sparingly or with judgement; to husband (one's health, life, money, etc.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)] > treat carefully manage1649 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (transitive)] savea1450 to stand upon ——1603 niggle1630 manage1649 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions ii. i. 96 Now the same God that hath ordained Soveraigne powers to judge of, and protect the life of others, hath given weighty charge to every man to tender and manage his owne. 1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode Prol. sig. Ai^v [She] manages her last Half-crown with care, And trudges to the Mall, on foot, for Air. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 30 A Man, as he manages himself, may dye Old at Thirty, and a Child at Fourscore. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xi, in tr. Virgil Wks. 570 He spurs amidst the Foes; Not managing the Life he meant to lose. 1701 J. Swift Disc. Contests Nobles & Commons v. 48 Yet, we may manage a sickly Constitution, and preserve a strong one. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. vii. 99 I began to..think the Honour of my own Kind not worth managing. 1733–4 G. Berkeley Let. 17 Mar. in Wks. (1871) IV. 218 I am obliged to manage my health, and I have many things to do. 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Manage,..4. To treat with caution or sparingly; to husband.] b. transitive. To treat (a person) with indulgence or consideration. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > be courteous to [verb (transitive)] > be accommodating or complaisant with comply1641 manage1714 accommodate1785 1714 J. Swift Let. to Ld. Bolingbroke 7 Aug. I do not find there is any intention of managing you in the least. 1727 J. Oldmixon Clarendon & Whitlock Compar'd v. 281 If the Parliament of England had manag'd them with the least Complacency. c. intransitive. To act with consideration for others. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 78 He temporised; he managed. †9. transitive. To convey by some mechanism or contrivance. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 423 How can we conceive that these solid stones..were managed hither..over a mountainous Countrey? 10. a. transitive. To deal or cope with; to tackle; to produce, bring about, or bring to pass, by contrivance, with effort, or with difficulty. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > make a success of [verb (transitive)] > manage to secure (a result) to make shift of1504 temporize1596 manage1654 to have (also get, want, etc.) a run for one's money1839 to pull off1860 1654 H. Haggar Order of Causes 16 The common Objections are raised against the word [all men] and the word [every man,] the word [world]... Which are managed thus: that Christ died for [all] the [Elect] for [every] one of the Elect for the [world] of [believers,][etc.]. 1722 D. Defoe Relig. Courtship i. i. 31 What, says he, Child, is to be done in the Affair while I am gone?.. I know not how it will be managed, but I believe she will see him no more. 1733 J. Swift On Poetry 7 Consult yourself..What subject you can manage best. 1825 C. Lamb in London Mag. May 69 It seemed to me that I had more time on my hands than I could ever manage. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) iii. 21 He managed a couple of plates full of strawberries and cream, and twenty-four little rout cakes. 1894 ‘A. Hope’ Prisoner of Zenda viii. 107 In spite of the people and servants who were hanging about, I doubt not that they managed a tête-à-tête. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 805/1 [I can] occasionally manage places which are too much for the average snipe-shooter. 1919 Outing Mar. 299/1 By dint of much shifting I finally managed a pose or two. 1952 A. Wilson Hemlock & After i. v. 95 I can usually manage a tart's holiday at Cannes or Ischia. 1991 Scottish Rugby Feb. 43/3 In fact none of the Ayrshire or Glasgow schools managed a home draw. b. intransitive. To succeed (despite difficulties) in accomplishing a task; to cope or get by (esp. financially); to contrive to get on with something which is barely adequate. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > present difficulties [verb (intransitive)] > have difficulty > act or live through difficulties scamblec1571 scramble1670 shift1723 manage1762 scrub1831 to struggle on1837 scratch1838 widdle1844 to worry along1871 to scrape along1884 to get by1908 scuffle1939 the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > be occupied or busy (in or at something) [verb (intransitive)] > conduct affairs > deal with a matter > competently wielda1500 to make good (also quick, sure, etc.) worka1616 manage1762 cope with1934 the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > recourse > have recourse [verb (intransitive)] > make do with what is available doc1300 scamble1608 to make the best of a bad bargain1670 shift1680 fenda1682 to do with ——1715 manage1762 to make do1927 1762 G. G. Beekman Let. 3 July in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 413 How I Shall manage About the Duty of the Coco I Cant yet Say. 1854 M. L. Charlesworth Ministering Children iv. 47 Rose was..wondering how William would manage about getting some logs for Mercy's fire. 1873 ‘S. Coolidge’ What Katy Did xi. 195 I've been thinking how we are to manage about the housekeeping. 1898 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession iii. 212 Not one of them getting wages enough to live on. How d'ye suppose most of them manage? 1914 D. H. Lawrence Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd iii. 75 Well, if he's badly hurt, there'll be the Union-pay, and sick-pay—we shall manage. 1962 Guardian 12 Jan. 8/7 During the first year twins often have to manage with less ‘mothering’ than other babies. 1995 Independent 2 Feb. 17/5 Businesses ponder whether they could manage with smaller head offices by ‘hot desking’. c. transitive. With infinitive. To be successful or skilful enough to do something, usually with difficulty or in the face of adversity. Also (ironic): to be unfortunate or unskilful enough to do something particularly foolish or disadvantageous (cf. contrive v.¹ 6b). ΚΠ 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xvii. 79 The chambermaid had left no ***** * under the bed... Cannot you manage, my dear, for a single time to ** * * *****? 1788 G. Keate Acct. Pelew Islands* ix. 96 Timber..which being cut down at the back of the island and roughed off, they could easily manage to bring round. 1838 W. C. Macready Reminisc. 3 Aug. (1875) II. 117 I find I managed to lose..£2,500. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. vii. 208 She is sharp enough; she could manage to coax it out of him, if she chose. 1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 400 His plays are among the very few modern productions which manage to keep the stage. 1895 Bookman Oct. 33/1 After gaining any diplomatic success he managed to neutralise the effects of it by some act of fatuous folly. 1943 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Aug. 4/6 During this exchange of fire, a Japanese plane had managed to get on the tail of Captain Walter's Warhawk. 1970 M. Moorcock Chinese Agent xiii. 87 When he had been called up, he'd managed to desert. 1991 J. Richardson Life of Picasso I. i. 18 He had not noticed that in the course of luncheon he had managed to button a napkin into his fly. 11. transitive. Formerly: to cultivate, till (land). Later: to maintain and control (the environment, an area, forest, nature reserve, etc.). Also: to conserve (natural resources such as game, fish, timber, wildlife, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > breaking up land > ploughing > plough (land) [verb (transitive)] eareOE till1377 plough1423 break1499 sheugh1513 ayrec1540 to break up1557 furrow1576 spit1648 whelm1652 manage1655 hack1732 thorough1733 to plough in1764 rout1836 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 6 As much as one plow can handsomely manage. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxiv. 303 Who then thy master, say? and whose the land So dress'd and manag'd by thy skilful hand? 1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. i. iv. 47 It may be increased by managing the soil in such a manner, as to enable it to attract this food in greater plenty. 1794 T. Davis Gen. View Agric. Wilts. 112 The lowest size of a Wiltshire down farm, that can be managed to advantage, is a good six horse business. 1843 J. Hardy in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 11. 64 The farmer and his family..managed their limited mailings, without extrinsic aid. 1891 H. Spencer Justice 270 Those who manage the land, experience a direct connexion between effort and benefit. 1949 Act 12 & 13 Geo. VI c. 97 §15 The expression ‘nature reserve’ means land managed for the purpose..of [etc.]. 1990 Amer. Horticulturist Sept. 12/1 The game department manages the area for deer, wild turkey, ruffed grouse, and other game and nongame species. 1993 Village Voice (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 5/1 Conservationists..manage wildlife for the good of animals as well as the public. 12. a. transitive. To win the consent or acquiescence of (a person) by artifice, flattery, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > wheedle, coax, or cajole fleechc1425 coyc1490 flatter?a1513 cuittlec1565 smooth1584 ingle1602 cajole1645 collogue1660 wheedle1661 coax1663 to wheedle with1664 to cajole with1665 manage1677 whilly1721 carney1811 whillywha1816 canoodle1864 patise1891 schmear1910 sweet-talk1936 soft-talk1946 snow-job1962 β. 1677 O. Walker Of Educ. (ed. 3) i. ix. 92 He embraceth the lies and flatteries of such as thereby gain and menage him. α. 1707 G. Farquhar Beaux Stratagem ii. 13 London, dear London is the Place for managing and breaking a Husband.1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 444. ¶4 The Art of managing Mankind, is only to make them stare a little.1777 A. Hamilton Let. 5 Apr. in Papers (1961) I. 221 He managed them with a good deal of address, and sent them away perfectly satisfied.1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. i. 4 Managing mankind by studying their tempers and humouring their weaknesses.1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vii. 223 The chief agent who was employed by the government to manage the Presbyterians was Vincent Alsop.1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 48 Managing one's husband is some pleasure.1905 E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread v. 125 His mother knew how to manage him. He agreed enthusiastically.1958 J. Kesson White Bird Passes v. 64 Your Grandmother could manage him. She always knew the right moment to speak. †b. transitive. To persuade (a person) to do something; to persuade (a person) towards some objective. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > persuasion > persuade (a person) [verb (transitive)] > persuade or prevail upon > persuade into an action manage1702 to gain into1756 suck1771 β. 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. vii. x, in Wks. 205 With certain Hints, how they were to Menage the Heads of the Tribe of Judah toward his Restauration. α. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 580 He..was so frighted, that he was easily managed to pretend to discover any thing that was suggested to him. 13. transitive. To manipulate or tamper with in order to deceive; to adulterate, doctor. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [verb (transitive)] > treat, adulterate, or flavour abuse1574 trick1594 juniperate1605 parel1615 part1682 pearl1682 manage1686 load1860 liqueur1872 plaster1886 1686 S. Fuller tr. Cicero in J. Dryden tr. Plutarch Lives V. 301 Sylla..preferr'd a Process against Roscius for the [word missing] of his Father, Chrysogonus managing the evidence. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 6 549 The art of managing or, according to the familiar phrase, doctoring wines. 1987 Times 3 Oct. 10/7 Their complaint boils down to the fact that Woodward has managed the news. 1991 Nation (N.Y.) 11 Feb. 148/2 The White House and the Pentagon manipulate an all-too-compliant press corps and manage the news down to the briefest bite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : † man-agen.¹ < n.²1577v.1560 see also
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