manurement

English

Etymology

Compare manurage and Old French manouvrement.

Noun

manurement (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) cultivation
   • 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education:

     the manurement of Wits is like that of Soyls, where before either the pains of Tilling, or the charge of Sowing, Men uſe to consider what the mould will bear, Heath or Grain.

References

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