单词 | manutention |
释义 | manutentionn. Now historical. The action of upholding or maintaining something or someone; maintenance, upkeep. In spec. use (perhaps only in university colleges, as in quots. 1663, 1934): the offence of supplying another with food, etc., provided for one's personal subsistence. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > restraint by holding hand manutention1603 the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] maintenancec1390 sustentation1425 keepingc1430 conservationc1447 sustenation1496 maintainment?c1500 intertenure1537 containing1567 sustainment1568 maintain1599 manutention1603 manutenency?1630 continuance1691 conservancy1884 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xxii. 53 Christian religion hath all the markes of..justice.., but none more apparant then the exact commendation of obedience due vnto magistrates, and manutention of policies. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Job xii. 16 All creatures subsist meerly by his manutention. 1663 Let. in D. Ogg Eng. in Reign Charles II (1934) ii. 701 My plea is that for the first breach of the statute..being the Statute of Manutention; my thoughts are with all submission to your judgement. 1934 D. Ogg Eng. in Reign Charles II ii. 700 He [sc. a Fellow of New College] had taken out bread and beer in his own name and had supplied them to other persons. This was the medieval sin of ‘manutention’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603 |
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