Talk:managery

The citation added under the sense “Husbandry; economy; frugality” in response to the request is one of what appear to be only 2 candidates in the works of Burnet. The other is on the following page of the same work:

Another error, into which the managery of Amsterdam drew the States, was occasioned by the offer that D’Estrades, the French Embassador, made them in the year 1663 […]

In my view, both these examples would fit more appropriately under the first sense (“management”), and a further citation would be useful to provide evidence of the sense of “husbandry,” etc. Aabull2016 (talk) 15:42, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Thank you for actually taking time to dig into the rfquotes. Some people rudely remove them for no reason and therefore jeopardise the existence of legitimate obscure senses. However, it's true that Webster 1913 occasionally included senses that might only be backed up by a single author. With some words it's hard to know. I agree that the Burnet Amsterdam sense isn't unambiguously "economy" rather than "management". Equinox ◑ 19:22, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Thanks so much for your encouragement. What I've found is that often quotes have been copied and recopied (with various changes in spelling) through a line of dictionaries, going back to Samuel Johnson, who (no doubt for economic reasons) not only truncates but considerably edits some of them. So it can take some delving to find the source and the actual original quote. I do think it's worth the effort, though! Aabull2016 (talk) 16:42, 27 March 2017 (UTC)