mansioned

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mansion +‎ -ed

Adjective[edit]

mansioned (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) Having a specified number or kind of mansions.
    • 1879, John Murray (Firm), Edward Backhouse Eastwick, Handbook of the Madras Presidency (page 400)
      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.
    • 1911, Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, The Philosophical Review, volume 20, page 558:
      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.
    • 1999, Ramashray Roy, Dalits, Development And Democracy, page 61:
      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 []

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