manner1 (maner)

[Ear [Early mod. E. maner; habit; prop. fem. of the adj., di.. OF. manier = Pr. manier = Sp. manero, Vse it in maner as I seide afore. Book of Quinte E ence (ed. Furnivall), p. 16. For the husbanding of these Mountains, their manner was to gather up the Stones, and place them in several lines along the sides of the Hills, in form of a Wall. Maundrell , Aleppo to Jerusalem, p. 65. After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Mat. vi. 9. I do not much dislike the matter, but The manner of his speech. Shak., A. and C., ii. 2. 114. 2. Habitual practice; customary mode of acting or proceeding with respect to anything; characteristic way or style, as in art or literature; distinctive method; habit; style: as, one's manner of life; the manner of Titian, or of Dickens. In Cipre is the manere of Lordis and alle othere Men, alle to eten on the Erthe. Mandeville , Travels, p. 29. A good maner than had Robyn, In londe where that he were, Every daye or he woulde dyne Thre me es wolde he here. Right hard it was for wight which did it heare To read what manner musicke that mote bee. Spenser, F. Q., II. xii. 70.] ner. See dot1. - In a manner, in a certain degree, measure, or sense; to a certain extent. The bread is in a manner common. 1 Sam. xxi. 5. 'Tis not a time to pity pa ionate griefs, When a whole kingdom in a manner lies Upon its death-bed bleeding. Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, i. 1. Shark's manners, greedine ; rapacity; extreme sel- fishne . [Naut. slang.] - To make one's manners, to salute a person on meeting, usually by a bow or courtesy: said of children. [Prov. Eng., and formerly New Eng.] I humbly make my manners , mi us. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, ii. To the manner born, accustomed to some practice or mode from birth; having lifelong familiarity with the thing mentioned. But to my mind - though I am native here, And to the manner born it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance. Shak., Hamlet, i. 4. 15. [ Manner here is sometimes understood as manor (which was formerly also spelled manner ), and is often changed to manor in the quotation to make the phrase applicable to locality.]=Syn. 1. Manner , Mode, Method , Way. Manner is the least precise of these words, standing for sort or kind, custom, mode, method, or the like. Mode may mean a fashion, or a form or sort, as a mode of existence, or a single act or an established way, as a mode of disposing of refuse. Method implies a succe ion of acts tending to an end, as a method of slaughtering an ox or of solving a problem. Way is a very general word, in large popular use for each of the others, as a man's way of building a dam ( method ), of holding a pen ( mode ), of staring at strangers ( manner ).-2. Habit , Usage , etc. See custom.- 3. Manners, Morals , etc. See morality . manner2t, n. An obsolete form of manor . manner3+ (man'ėr), n. Another form of mainor . manner ablet (man'er-a-bl), a. [ maner- Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 46). able; Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them. Acts xvii. 2. He who can vary his manner to suit the variation is the great dramatist; but he who excels in one manner only will, when that manner happens to be appropriate, appear to be a great dramatist. Macaulay , Dryden. The manner of the painters of the fifteenth century was often shackled and cramped by difficulties which have long since been broken away, and by ignorance which has long since yielded to knowledge. C. E. Norton, Travel and Study in Italy, p. 56. 3. Personal bearing or behavior; customary conduct; characteristic way of acting; deportment or demeanor: most commonly in the plural: as, his manner was abrupt; good or bad manners; reformation of manners in a community. All his maners so wele it did hyr plece, That she constreyned was in certeynte To loue hym best, it wold non other be. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 689. Of corrupted maners spryng peruerted iudgementes. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 79. Evil communications corrupt good manners . 1 Cor. xv. 33. Air and manner are more expre ive than words. Richardson , Clari a Harlowe. Specifically-4. pl . Good behavior; polite deportment; habitual practice of civility; commendable habits of conduct: as, have you no manners ? Fit for the mountains, and barbarous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd. Shak ., T. N., iv. 1. 53. Good manners is the art of making those people easy Swift. with whom we converse. By manners I do not mean morals, but behaviour and good breeding, as they shew themselves in the town and in the country. Add is on, Country Manners. 5. The way in which anything is made or constituted; mode of being or formation; fashion; character; sort; kind: often used with all in a plural sense, equivalent to sorts or kinds: as, all manner of baked meats. [Obsolete or archaic.] There duellen Sara zines, and another maner of folk, that men clepen Cordynes. Mandeville, Travels, p. 259. Alle maner of men, the mene and the riche, Worchyng and wandryng as the worlde asketh. Piers Plowman (B), Prol., 1. 19. Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, 1 Sam. x. 25. and wrote it in a book. What manner of man are you? Shak., Hen. VIII., v. 1. 118. in good manners. In a manerable mershalle the connynge is moost com- mendable To haue a fore sight to straungers, to sett them at the table. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 191. männerchor (men'ėr-kōr), n. [G., , pl. of mann , man, + chor , chorus: see man and chorus.] A German singing-society or chorus composed exclusively of men. mannered (maner1. Having or po e ed of manners, carriage, or demeanor; in compounds, having manners of a certain kind, as in ill - man nered, well - mannered. (man'èrd), ME. manered; And Mede ys manered after hym. Piers Plowman (C), iii. 27. Beseeching you To give her princely training, that she may be Manner'd as she is born. Shak ., Pericles, iii. 3. 17. 2. Marked by a constantly repeated manner or method, especially in art or literature; char- acterized by mannerism; artificial; unnatural; affected. A peculiar reaction from the mannered style of the masters of the preceding century manifested itself in Holland. Amer . Cyc ., XII. 800. A mannered piece, showing silvery evening twilight on a pool and nymphs dancing in the shadow. Athenœum , April 1, 1882. The defective proportions of the forms, and the mannered attitude of the principal figure. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, p. 28. mannerism (man'ér-izm), n. [ -ism .] 1. Monotonous, formal, or pedantic adherence to the same manner; uniformity of manner, especially a tastele uniformity, without freedom or variety; exce ive adherence to a characteristic mode or manner of action or treatment. Mannerism is pardonable, and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural. Macaulay, Boswell's Johnson. The secondary intellect seeks for excitement in expre ion, and stimulates itself into mannerism , which is the wilful obtrusion of self, as style is its unconscious abnegation. Lowell , Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 181. 2. A peculiarity of manner in deportment, speech, or execution; an exceptionally characteristic mode or method; an idiosyncrasy. The seated pa engers. remained in happy ignorance that their mannerisms and facial peculiarities were T. Hardy, The Woodlanders, i. [The word in this sense is frequently used in old English sharply defined to the public eye. without of following, in a quasi-adjective use, like kind of in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary mannerist