mansionry

English

Etymology

From mansion +‎ -ry.

Noun

mansionry (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi], page 134, column 2:

     This Gueſt of Summer, / The Temple-haunting Barlet does approue, / By his loued Manſonry, that the Heauens breath / Smells wooingly here: […]

   • 1876, Robert Browning, “St. Martin’s Summer”, in Pacchiarotto and How He Worked in Distemper: With Other Poems, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC, stanza 10, page 113:

     Love’s corpse lies quiet therefore, / Only Love’s ghost plays truant, / And warns us have in wholesome awe / Durable mansionry; that’s wherefore / I weave but trellis-work, pursuant / —Life, to law.

References

• “mansionry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.