mansioned

adj

mansioned

adj

Etymology From mansion + -ed.

1

In compounds Having 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)
  • 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 558:
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  • It 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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