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Definition of Manred
1. n. Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage.
Definition of Manred
1. Noun. (context: UK dialectal or obsolete) Homage. ¹
2. Noun. (context: UK dialectal or obsolete) Vassals collectively; the supply of men a lord can called upon in time of warfare. ¹
3. Noun. (context: UK dialectal or obsolete) The position of leader among fighting men; the conduct (of an army). ¹
4. Noun. (rare UK dialectal or obsolete) Carnal intercourse. ¹
5. Noun. (context: UK dialectal Scotland) The solemn undertaking to be one's faithful supporter, and the obligation so constituted. ¹
6. Noun. (mythology) primal substance of the Universe ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Manred
1. homage [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manred
Literary usage of Manred
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambrian Journal by Cambrian Institute, Tenby, Wales, Cambrian Institute (Tenby, Wales), Wales Cambrian Institute (Tenby (1861)
"And on account of what is thus demonstrated, it is allegorically said that God
was born of the manred, without beginning, without end. ..."
2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"In OE it U properly written manred. He will falle to tin fot, And bicom thi ...
of Harbour is merely the A.-S. phrase ; Hi hodden him manred mated : illi ei ..."
3. Barddas: or, A collection of original documents, illustrative of the by John Williams (1862)
"... ei enw ? i " manred " is compounded of man, small, fine, and rkfd, a coarse.
... light is thrown here upon the expression " manred ..."
4. Journal of the Transactions of the Victoria Institute, Or Philosophical by Victoria Institute (Great Britain) (1881)
"Let M stand for manred, and x for the unknown quantity, or God, then M + x the
smallest particle conceivable, but let M be multiplied by the number ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1841)
"... that he by no means wrote the word manred erroneously for ... is merely manred
maccan, to do homage: thu the Gibeonites are said to be the man ..."
6. Domestic Annals of Scotland: From the Reformation to the Revolution by Robert Chambers (1874)
"Robert Lord Boyd entered this day into a bond of manred with NoT. 10. William Fairly,
brother of David Fairly of that Ilk. ..."
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