mansion house (manshonhous)

The house in which one resides; an inhabited house, especially one of considerable importance or grandeur; a manor-house. This party purposing in this place to make a dwelling, or, as the old word is, his mansion - house , or his man or house, did devise how he might make his land a complete habitation to supply him with all maner of nece aries. Bacon, Use of the Law. [A burglary] must be, according to Sir Edward Coke's definition, in a mansion - house, and therefore, to account for the reason why breaking open a church is burglary, he quaintly observes that it is dom us mansion a lis Dei. Black stone , Com., IV. xvi, The Mansion-house, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. mansionry (man's hon-ri), n.; pl. mansionries (-riz). [mansion + -ry.] Abode in a place; residence. [Rare.] The temple-haunting martlet does approve, By his lov'd mansionry , that the heaven's breath Smells wooingly here. Shak ., Macbeth, i. 6. 5.