Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or process of manuring or cultivating; cultivation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Cultivation.
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- noun obsolete
cultivation
Etymologies
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Compare manurage and Old French manouvrement.
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(noun) - (1) Cultivation; improvement; as in the manurement of wits.
--Joseph Worcester's Dictionary of the English Language, 1881
(2) Manure your heart with diligence, and in it sow good seed.
--Zachary Boyd's Zion's Flowers, 1645
January 16, 2018