† manurementn.
Obsolete.
Cultivation. (literal and figurative.)
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society > education > [noun]
informationa1387
instructionc1425
eruditionc1460
culture?1510
education?1533
training1537
trainment1570
train1581
manurance1594
nurturing1629
schoolcraft1631
manurementa1639
manuring1726
schoolmastering1830
paideia1892
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun]
earth-tilthOE
earth-tillingOE
tilling?c1225
delving1377
laboura1393
land-tillingc1420
culturec1450
tilthing1495
labouring1523
manurea1547
manuring1550
digging1552
cultivation1553
tilth1565
manurance1572
agriculture1583
nithering1599
culturation1606
gainor1607
delvage1610
agricolation1623
gainage1625
cultivage1632
manurementa1639
groundwork1655
fieldwork1656
proscission1656
field labour1661
manuragea1670
subduing1776
management1799
subjugation1800
geopony1808
clodhopping1847
agriculturism1885
a1639 H. Wotton Philos. Surv. Educ. in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 319 The manurement of Wits is like that of Soyles.
1707 J. Archdale New Descr. Carolina 9 Its natural Fertility and easy Manurement, is apt to make the People incline to Sloth.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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