Manse vs Manes - What's the difference?
manse | manes |
To excommunicate; curse.
A house inhabited by the minister of a parish.
(archaic) A family dwelling, an owner-occupied house.
A large house, a mansion.
The souls or spirits of dead ancestors, conceived as deities or the subjects of reverence.
* 1658 , , Urne-Burial , Penguin 2005, p. 9
As a proper noun manse
is commonly used nickname of the city of tampere, in finland (pop 200,000).As a noun manes is
.manse
English
(wikipedia manse)Etymology 1
From (etyl) mansien, apheretic variant of amansien, from (etyl) . More at (l).Verb
(mans)Etymology 2
From (etyl) , from whence also manor, mansion.Noun
(en noun)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 .Anagrams
* ----manes
English
(wikipedia manes)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en-plural noun)- this was the Ustrina'' or place of burning their bodies, or some sacrificing place unto the ''Manes