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Webster 1913 Edition
Manse
Webster 1828 Edition
Manse
MANSE
,Noun.
1.
A house or habitation; particularly, a parsonage house. A capital manse is the manor-house or lord's court.2.
A farm.Definition 2024
Manse
Manse
See also: manse
Finnish
Proper noun
Manse
Declension
| Inflection of Manse (Kotus type 8/nalle, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | Manse | — | |
| genitive | Mansen | — | |
| partitive | Mansea | — | |
| illative | Manseen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Manse | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Manse | — |
| gen. | Mansen | ||
| genitive | Mansen | — | |
| partitive | Mansea | — | |
| inessive | Mansessa | — | |
| elative | Mansesta | — | |
| illative | Manseen | — | |
| adessive | Mansella | — | |
| ablative | Manselta | — | |
| allative | Manselle | — | |
| essive | Mansena | — | |
| translative | Manseksi | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| abessive | Mansetta | — | |
| comitative | — | — | |
manse
manse
See also: Manse
English
An old manse, Concord, Massachusetts, USA
Verb
manse (third-person singular simple present manses, present participle mansing, simple past and past participle mansed)
- (transitive) To excommunicate; curse.
Etymology 2
From Latin mansus (“dwelling”), from manere (“to remain”), from whence also manor, mansion.
Noun
manse (plural manses)
- A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.
- (archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.
- A large house, a mansion.
Quotations
- circa 1890: George Otto Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay
- All favourable hereditary influences, both intellectual and moral, are assured by a genealogy which derives from a Scotch Manse.
Related terms
Translations
house inhabited by the minister of a parish