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单词 mansion house
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mansion housen.

Brit. /ˈmanʃn haʊs/, U.S. /ˈmæn(t)ʃən ˌhaʊs/
Forms: see mansion n. and house n.1 and int.; also 1500s mansyant howse.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: mansion n., house n.1
Etymology: < mansion n. + house n.1 Compare post-classical Latin domus mansionalis (1583 in a British source). Compare earlier mansion place n.
1.
a. gen. A dwelling house, a house in which a person resides. Obsolete.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [noun]
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standing house?1532
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beinga1616
smoke-housea1687
drum1846
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > large or palatial
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dome1553
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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
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stately home1934
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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