Meanings
plural manageries
- countableuncountableManagement; manner of using; conduct; direction.
Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it.
1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, Part I, p. 11 - countableuncountableHusbandry; economy; frugality.
1724, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time, Volume I, Book II: The History of the Reign of King Charles II, p. 330, But they found […] , to their cost, that their unreasonable managery in that particular drew upon them an expence of many millions […]
- countableobsoleteuncountableSomething requiring management; a project.
[…] if a Man has several Manageries upon his Hands, and the Books and Papers of them lie together, Confusion is apt to grow, not only among them but, in his Head […]
1742, Roger North, The Life of the Honourable Sir Dudley North, London: John Whiston, page 182
Origin
Compare Old French menagerie, mesnagerie. See manage and compare menagerie.
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