manse

• IPA^(key): /mæns/

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

manse (third-person singular simple present manses, present participle mansing, simple past and past participle mansed)

1. (transitive) To excommunicate; curse.

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

manse (plural manses)

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

• 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.

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

• Means, Mensa, Seman, amens, manes, means, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

• Rhymes: -anse
• Stress: mànse

manse

1. Feminine plural of adjective manso.

mānse

1. vocative masculine singular of mānsus