different between domiciliation vs mansion

English

Noun

domiciliation (countable and uncountable, plural domiciliations)

1. The act of domiciliating.
2. permanent residence
   • 1855, Henry Hart Milman, History of Latin Christianity^[1]:

     How far were the Templars orientalized by their domiciliation in the East? Had their morals escaped the taint of Oriental license?

Related terms

• peridomiciliation
• redomiciliation

References

• domiciliation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

French

Etymology

domicilier +? -ation

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?.mi.si.lja.sj??/

Noun

domiciliation f (plural domiciliations)

1. (law) domiciliation
2. (finance) standing order

   Synonym: ordre permanent

References

• “domiciliation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Alternative forms

• mansioun (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mansi? (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of man?re (“stay”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæn(t)??n/

Noun

mansion (plural mansions)

2. A large house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
3. (Britain) A luxurious flat (apartment).
4. (obsolete) A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. (obsolete) A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.
6. (historical) An astrological house; a station of the moon.
   • 1387-1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

     Which book spak muchel of the operaciouns / Touchynge the eighte and twenty mansiouns / That longen to the moone

7. (Chinese astronomy) One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. (chiefly in the plural) An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)
   • 1611, Bible, Authorized (King James) Version, John XIV.2:

     In my Father's house are many mansions [transl. ????? (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.

   • 1667, John Denham, On Mr Abraham Cowley, his Death, and Burial amongst the Ancient Poets

     These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.

   • 2003, The Economist, (subtitle), 18 Dec 2003:

     The many mansions in one east London house of God.

9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.

Derived terms

• mansionette
• mansionry
• McMansion

Related terms

Descendants

• Japanese: ????? (manshon) (borrowed)

Translations

Anagrams

• Manions, Minoans, amnions, onanism

Middle English

Noun

mansion

1. Alternative form of mansioun