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- in compoundsnot comparableHaving a specified number or kind of mansions.
The etymology of this name is a moot point. Colonel Sykes thought it meant “Nuptial Palace.” Others have thought it meant Two-Mansioned Cave from Du Mahall.
1879, John Murray (Firm), Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Handbook of the Madras Presidency (page 400)2 more examples
Only when we know how 'many-mansioned' the universe of reality really is can we hope to have a philosophy that shall rest upon anything but the flimsiest foundations.
1911, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, The Philosophical Review, volume 20, page 558It appears, then, that when individual members of the Scheduled Castes gather their courage to see the gate-keepers of the multi-mansioned and multi-layered bureaucratic edifice to get some help, most of them are unable to make their case […]
1999, Ramashray Roy, Dalits, Development And Democracy, page 61
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