单词 | mansion house |
释义 | mansion housen. a. gen. A dwelling house, a house in which a person resides. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun] houseeOE homeOE houseOE roofa1382 housinga1400 bike1508 dwelling-house1530 firehouse1530 standing house?1532 mansion house1533 maisonc1540 beinga1616 smoke-housea1687 drum1846 khazi1846 casa1859 shack1910 kipsie1916 machine for living (in)1927 1533 Act 24 Hen. VIII c. 5 Any suche evill disposed persone..attempting..burgularly to breke Mansion houses. 1563 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. iii. 164 Every mansion howse of this Cyty that..shalbe visited this Sommer season with the plage. 1638 Indenture in T. Lechford Note-bk. (1885) 54 All that parte of one new mansion house in Boston..wch lyes to the south end. 1672 T. Manley Νομοθετης: Cowell's Interpreter sig. Nnb Those that dig for Salt-peter, shall not dig in the Mansion-house of any Subject without his assent. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 264. ¶2 He took his present Lodging in St. John Street, at the Mansion-House of a Taylor's Widow. 1718 in G. Sheldon Hist. Deerfield, Mass. (1895) I. 499 We propose that they..shall..Build each man a Mansion house upon their house lots. 1755 in F. Chase Hist. Dartmouth Coll. (1891) I. 11 A certain lott of Land..with a Mantion House thereon. b. In extended use. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature sig. Nij The water is the proper Element, mansion house and place of abrade for fishes. 1592 R. Dallington tr. F. Colonna Hypnerotomachia f. 75v This place was the Mansion-house of Voluptuousnes. 1613 R. Niccols Three Sisters Teares sig. Dv Now in the Helme, the glory of the field, Foule spiders still their mansion house may build. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 31 A City of refuge, the mansion house of liberty. 2. a. An official residence, formerly esp. one which related to an ecclesiastical benefice. Now chiefly in sense 2b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > clerical residence (general) > [noun] mansion1444 manse1534 mansion house1546 glebe-house1645 presbytère1734 presbytery1825 parochial house1829 clergy-house1865 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > official residence > [noun] solen1447 mansion house1546 residency1801 konak1852 white house1854 1546 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 14 The Mansion house of the saide vicars. a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. xxiv, in Wks. (1662) 69 The Executors of Bishops are sued if their Mansion house be suffered to go to decay. 1609 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 335 The Mansion House of the Prebendary which is situate in Rippon. 1739 W. Knowler in Earl of Strafford Lett. I. sig. A2v Ded. Repairing of Churches and building Mansion-Houses for Ministers. 1835 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece I. viii. 331 The Temple of Fear was erected near the mansion-house of the ephors. b. spec. (usually with capital initials): the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London, serving jointly with Guildhall as the centre of government, justice, fund-raising, and official entertaining of the City of London.As the centre of the City's official entertaining, the Mansion House has traditionally been the venue for important policy statements by members of the Royal Family and the British government; cf. Mansion House speech n. at Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor > residence of Lord Mayor of London mansion house1766 1766 J. Entick Surv. London in New Hist. London IV. 359 The lord-mayor's Mansion-house, a modern edifice begun in 1739 and finished in 1753. 1855 London as it is To-day 366 There are two police offices, one in the Mansion House, where the Lord mayor presides; and the other at Guildhall. 1880 Daily News 18 Dec. 4/5 A conference..took place yesterday afternoon in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House, the Lord Mayor presiding. 1885 Dict. National Biogr. I. 229/1 His views were developed in a speech at the Mansion House..which raised him higher than before in the public estimation. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. XI. 500/1 The District owned the south side of the Inner Circle from Mansion House to South Kensington. 1963 W. Blunt Of Flowers & Village 174 The Madonna lily is to the Regale lily as is the Parthenon to the Mansion House. 1990 W. Jackson Britain's Def. Dilemma 3 Atlee, Churchill, and Eden..could well have repeated Churchill's own words, uttered during a wartime speech at the Mansion House in the City of London in 1942, ‘I have not become the King's First Minister to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire’. 3. The house of the lord of a manor, the chief residence of a landed proprietor. Also (in later use chiefly U.S.): a large house whose impressive appearance implies that the owner is wealthy or of high social standing. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial palacec1300 dome1553 residencea1616 great house1623 mansion house1651 palazzo1657 châteauc1739 mansion1815 palacio1839 haveli1871 puri1935 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > manor house hallc1000 boroughc1175 court1297 manorc1300 palacec1300 mansion1375 placea1387 manor-place1392 chemis1408 head-place1463 mansion place1473 manse1490 court-hall1552 manery1563 manor house1575 seat1607 country seat1615 great house1623 mansion house1651 country house1664 manor-seata1667 place-house1675 mansion-seat1697 hall-house1702 big house1753 ha'-house1814 manoir1830 manor hall1840 yashiki1863 seigneury1895 stately home1934 stately2009 1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 149 The Wife also shall have..her lodging in her Husbands cheife Mansion house for 40. dayes. c1660 J. Evelyn Diary ann. 1620 (1955) II. 3 Wotton,..the then Mansion house of my Father, left him..by my Grand-father. 1679 in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1859) III. 42 He shall build upon his sayd accomodations a good sufficient mansion house. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4893/4 The Capital Messuage or Mansion-House, called Newborrough-Hall. 1746 E. Kimber Itinerant Observ. Amer. in London Mag. July 324 A Negro Quarter, is a Number of Huts or Hovels, built at some Distance from the Mansion-House. 1784 V. Knox Ess. (ed. 5) II. cxxi. 155 The landed gentry usually possess a share of pride fully proportionate to their estate and mansion-house. 1812 Niles' Reg. 3 9/2 The majority then retired to the Mansion house. 1837 W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 162 A large and elegant Mansion house has been erected on the ground with numerous smaller cottages and out buildings. 1848 C. F. Shand Pract. Court of Session II. 607 Where there is a proper mansion-house on a landed-estate, the eldest heir-portioner is entitled to that mansion-house. 1861 O. W. Holmes Elsie Venner v. 43 In this street were most of the great houses, or ‘mansion-houses’, as it was usual to call them... A New-England ‘mansion-house’ is naturally square, with dormer windows. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy iv. 32 The bunch of trees, under which nestled the mansion-house of Kirkoswald. 1938 Sun (Baltimore) 2 Aug. 18/4 The Musical Union of Baltimore..had requested the Board of Park Commissioners to build a band shell below the mansion house in Druid Hill Park. 1983 ‘J. Gash’ Sleepers of Erin (1984) vii. 51 It's desperately hard taking less than you want in other people's posh mansion houses. Compounds C1. General attributive. Mansion House dinner n. ΚΠ 1876 A. Trollope Prime Minister III. xvi. 275 I could do a Mansion House dinner to a marvel! 1991 P. Junor Charles & Diana xii. 87 As he began his speech, his hosts at the Mansion House dinner looked on in disbelief. C2. Used attributively with reference to the residence of the Lord Mayor of London (see sense 2b). Mansion House committee n. now historical any of various committees appointed during the 19th cent. by the Lord Mayor to administer funds to a charity or other cause. ΚΠ 1863 H. Fry Shilling Guide to London Charities 86/1 Mansion House Committee Fund in aid of distressed Lancashire operatives. 1912 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. 1900–1911 21/1 In 1885, he [sc. H. Adler] joined the Mansion House committee for the relief of persecuted Jews. Mansion House Fund n. now historical (in the Victorian era) any of various charitable relief funds collected by the Lord Mayor of London through a public appeal. ΚΠ 1876 Classified Directory Metrop. Charities 75 Mansion-house funds, contributions are received from time to time for the relief of special distress. 1965 D. Owen Eng. Philanthropy xviii. 513 London saw a succession of ‘Mansion House Funds’, and during the depressed years of the '[18]80's most of the larger centers broke into a rash of emergency collections. Mansion House speech n. a speech made at a Mansion House dinner, esp. that traditionally made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer prior to the Budget. ΚΠ 1936 R. C. K. Ensor England, 1870–1914 Index 625/2 Lloyd George, David..his Mansion House speech. 1991 Guardian 1 Nov. 16/7 When Nigel Lawson was at the Treasury you could always count on the Mansion House speech for some fiscal and monetary pyrotechnics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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