manseとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /mæns/
• 韻: -æns

語源 1

From Middle English mansien, apheretic variant of amansien, from 古期英語 āmǣnsumian (“to excommunicate”). More at amanse.

動詞

manse (三人称単数 現在形 manses, 現在分詞 mansing, 過去形および過去分詞形 mansed)

1. (transitive) To excommunicate; curse.

語源 2

From Medieval Latin mansus (“dwelling”), from Latin manere (“to remain”), whence also manor, mansion. Doublet of mas.

名詞

manse (複数形 manses)

1. A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.

   Coordinate terms: vicarage, rectory, parsonage

   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     He has caught a glint of steel in the manse gateway, but it is only the minister's bicycle still chained to the trunk of a monkeypuzzle tree as a precaution against unchristian covetousness.

2. (archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.
3. A large house, a mansion.

引用

• 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.

関連する語

• manor
• mansion
• child of the manse
• son of the manse
• daughter of the manse