manner, maner, manere

[ Fr.manière, from O. Fr. manier habitual, accustomed to, from manier to manage, to handle, from main; Lat. manus the hand; Sp. manera: Port. maneira; Ital. maniera.] 1. The mode in which anything is done; mode of action; mode or way of performing, doing, or effecting; method, style. 2. The customary or characteristic style of acting or conducting one's self; habitual style, bearing, or conduct; use, custom. "Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them."- Acts xvii. 2. 3. The characteristic style of writing or thought in an author, or the characteristic peculiarities of an artist. 4. (Pl.): General mode of life or living; conduct. "Morals and manners were subjected to a code resembling that of the synagogue." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. i. 5. ( Pl . ): Behavior, carriage, deportment; especially ceremonious, polite, or respectful deportment; civility, politene , breeding. "I dare your worst objections: if I blush, It is, to see a nobleman want manners . ' Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., iii. 2. 6. Sort, kind, fashion. "What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?"- Mark iv. 41. 7. Certain degree, fashion, measure, or sense. 2624 2. Resembling a man as distinguished from a woman; hence, bold, masculine. "The horrible mistake of adopting the role of a mannish woman." -Literary World , March 27, 1885, p. 296. mansion pearance of manhood. "We'll have a swashing and a martial outside, As many other mannish cowards have." Shakesp.: As You Like It, i. 3. 4. Proper or peculiar to man; characteristic of man; human. "To don sinne is mannish , but certes for to persevere long in sinne is worke of the divel."-Chaucer: Tale of Melibeus . 5. Characteristic of the age of manhood; manly. "And let us, Polydore, though now our voices Have got the mannish crack, sing him to the ground." Shakesp.: Cymbeline, iv. 2. măn-nish-lý, adv. [Eng. mannish; -ly.] In a mannish manner; like a man.