Syn. — Method; mode; custom; habit; fashion; air; look; mien; aspect; appearance. See Method.
Mannered
(Man"nered) a.
1. Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self.
Give her princely training, that she may be
Mannered as she is born.
Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity.
His style is in some degree mannered and confined.
Hazlitt. Mannerism
(Man"ner*ism) n. [Cf. F. maniérisme.] Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic
mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
. . . . But a mannerism which does not sit easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on principle,
and which can be sustained only by constant effort, is always offensive.
Macaulay. Mannerist
(Man"ner*ist), n. [Cf. F. maniériste.] One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action,
bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
Mannerliness
(Man"ner*li*ness) n. The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M.
Hale.
Mannerly
(Man"ner*ly), a. Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant.
What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly.
Shak. Mannerly
(Man"ner*ly), adv. With good manners. Shak.
Mannheim gold
(Mann"heim gold") [From Mannheim in Germany, where much of it was made.] A kind
of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc. Ure.
Mannide
(Man"nide) n. [Mannite + anhydride.] (Chem.) A white amorphous or crystalline substance,
obtained by dehydration of mannite, and distinct from, but convertible into, mannitan.
Mannish
(Man"nish) a. [Man + - ish: cf. AS. mennisc, menisc.]
1. Resembling a human being in form or nature; human. Chaucer.
But yet it was a figure
Most like to mannish creature.
Gower. 2. Resembling, suitable to, or characteristic of, a man, manlike, masculine. Chaucer.
A woman impudent and mannish grown.
Shak. 3. Fond of men; — said of a woman. [Obs.] Chaucer.
— Man"nish*ly adv. — Man"nish*ness, n.
Mannitan
(Man"ni*tan) n. [Mannite + anhydrite.] (Chem.) A white amorphous or crystalline substance
obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.
Mannitate
(Man"ni*tate) n. (Chem.) A salt of mannitic acid.
Mannite
(Man"nite) n. [Cf. F. mannite.]
