manurement
English
Etymology
Compare manurage and Old French manouvrement.
Noun
manurement (uncountable)
- (obsolete) cultivation
- 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education
- the manurement of Wits is like that of Soyls, where before either the pains of Tilling, or the charge of Sowing, Men uſe to consider what the mould will bear, Heath or Grain.
- 1651, Henry Wotton, A Philosophical Survey of Education
References
manurement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913