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▪ I. ‖ manes, n. pl.|ˈmeɪniːz, ˈmɑːneɪz|
[L. mānēs pl.
By some scholars supposed to be the pl. of OLatin mānis good (cf. im-mānis cruel).]
1. The deified souls of departed ancestors (as beneficent spirits; opposed to larvæ and lemures, the malevolent shades of the Lower World). Also, the spirit, ‘shade’ of a departed person, considered as an object of homage or reverence, or as demanding to be propitiated by vengeance.
1390Gower Conf. II. 173 Thei hadden goddes,..And tho be name Manes hihten, To whom ful gret honour thei dihten. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xv. vii. 43 As if they meant with Romane bloud to sacrifice unto their wicked Manes. 1670Dryden 1st Pt. Conq. Granada iv. ii, The manes of my son shall smile this day, While I, in blood, my vows of vengeance pay. 1703Pope Thebais 752 Let eternal fame Attend thy Manes, and preserve thy name. 1792Burke Corr. (1844) III. 381 The Chevalier may owe it to the manes of the fallen nobility..to put his name to his own defence and theirs. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. (1877) I. ii. 272 The games were..intended as human sacrifices to appease the Manes of the dead. 1880Huxley Sci. & Cult. i. (1881) 1 We may hope that the manes of the burnt-out philosopher were then finally appeased.
fig.1673Remarques Humours Town 18 The delight, or the torment of reflections, being the Manes of past actions. 1726C. D'Anvers Craftsm. No. 2 (1727) 20 It is indeed only the manes of departed Liberty which makes the loss of the substance more grievous to us.
¶2. Taken in the sense of ‘mortal remains’ (? by association with L. mănēre to remain); hence transf.
1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 336 A certain Polander shut up the Manes of Plants in Glass Vessels.
▪ II. manes(h
obs. form of menace. |