different between manse vs hanse

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mæns/
• Rhymes: -æns

Etymology 1

From Middle English mansien, apheretic variant of amansien, from Old English ?m?nsumian (“to excommunicate”). More at amanse.

Verb

manse (third-person singular simple present manses, present participle mansing, simple past and past participle mansed)

1. (transitive) To excommunicate; curse.

Etymology 2

From Medieval Latin mansus (“dwelling”), from Latin manere (“to remain”), whence also manor, mansion. Doublet of mas.

Noun

manse (plural manses)

1. A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.

   Coordinate terms: vicarage, rectory, parsonage
2. (archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.
3. A large house, a mansion.

Quotations

• circa 1890: George Otto Trevelyan, Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

  All favourable hereditary influences, both intellectual and moral, are assured by a genealogy which derives from a Scotch Manse.

Related terms

• manor
• mansion
• child of the manse
• son of the manse
• daughter of the manse

Translations

Anagrams

• Means, Mensa, Seman, amens, manes, means, mensa, mesna, names, namés, neams, ñames

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -anse
• Hyphenation: màn?se

Adjective

manse

1. feminine plural of manso

Latin

Participle

m?nse

1. vocative masculine singular of m?nsus

English

Etymology 1

See Hanse.

Alternative forms

• hans
• haunse, haunce

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæns/, /hænz?/

Noun

hanse (plural hanses)

1. (historical) Alternative form of Hanse, a merchant guild or a former commercial league of German cities.
   • 1911, John Rhys, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, p. 252:

     The town does not seem to have had a hanse, nor have there been discovered any records showing the existence of medieval trade guilds; […]

   • 2011, Sheilagh Ogilvie, Institutions and European Trade, p. 95:

     In this, they resembled the alien merchant guilds and hanses of the medieval period.
2. (historical) The guildhall of a Hanse.
3. (historical) A fee payable to the Hanse, particularly its entrance fee and the impost levied on non-members trading in its area.

Synonyms

• (merchant guild): See guild
• (Hanseatic League): See Hanseatic League
• (headquarters of a Hanse in a city): guildhall, hanse-house
• (fee paid to enter the Hanse): hansing, hansing-silver
• (any fee paid to the Hanse): hanse-penny, hanse-gild

Translations

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "Hanse, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1898.

Etymology 2

Compare French anse (“handle”), anse de panier (“surbased arch, flat arch, vault”), and English haunch (“hip”).

Noun

hanse (plural hanses)

1. (architecture) That part of an elliptical or many-centred arch which has the shorter radius and immediately adjoins the impost.
   • 1736, Richard Neve, Neve's The city and country purchaser and builder's dictionary

     Now Workmen call each End of these Arches the Hanse, which Hanses are always the Arches of smaller Circles than the Scheme, which is the middle Part of these Arches, and consists of a Part of a larger Circle […]

Anagrams

• Ehsan, Haens, Hanes, Sanhe, Shane, Shean, ashen, heans