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Definition of Mansi

1. Noun. A member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals.

2. Noun. The Ugric language (related to Hungarian) spoken by the Vogul.

Definition of Mansi

1. Proper noun. A member of an ethnic group of people who live in Khantia-Mansia. ¹

2. Proper noun. The Finno-Ugric language spoken by these people. ¹

3. Noun. A member of this people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mansi

Mannerisms Mannerist Mannerists Mannheim Mannheim gold Mannie Manning Mannkopf's sign Mannlicher stock Manny

Mano Manoah Manoel Island Mansart Mansfield Mansi Mansis Manson Manson's disease Manson's eye worm

Manson's pyosis Manson's schistosomiasis Mansonella demarquayi Mansonella ozzardi Mansonella perstans Mansonella streptocerca Mansonella tucumana Mansonia Mansonite Mansonites

Literary usage of Mansi

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"mansi, vii. 873). 4. AD 678, at some place unknown : when St. Leodegar or Leger bishop of Autun was degraded as having been accessory to the death of king ..."

2. Descriptive Ethnology by Robert Gordon Latham (1859)
"CHAPTER XXIV. The Ugrians of the Ural.—The mansi, or ... Under the name of mansi I include two populations, akin to each other in all the chief ethnological ..."

3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"The account of the« councils in mansi needs revising (xi. ... AD 710, if ut all, for mansi doubts it; the only document on record attributed to it being a ..."

4. Journal of Theological Studies (1905)
"396: mansi Concilia v 1017). The last document, owing to the ... 98 b with the words ' completa est apostoli ' (mansi v 1022). Again in a different hand. 4. ..."

5. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being by William Smith, Henry Wace (1882)
"(mansi, ix. 389; De Quien, Or. Chr. i. 777.) [LD] JOANNES, bishop of ... In the conciliar lists of the Nicene fathers (mansi, ii. ..."

6. Historical Tracts of S. Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandriaby Athanasius by Athanasius (1843)
"mansi differs from other critics in this, that he rejects the testimony of Socrates, &c. upon which ... mansi, however, relies upon a document discovered by ..."

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