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managery
noun 3
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bad
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noun
1
Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it.
2
Husbandry; economy; frugality.
1724, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time, Volume I, Book II: The History of the Reign of King Charles II, p. 330, But they found […] , to their cost, that their unreasonable managery in that particular drew upon them an expence of many millions […]
3
Something requiring management; a project.
[…] if a Man has several Manageries upon his Hands, and the Books and Papers of them lie together, Confusion is apt to grow, not only among them but, in his Head […]
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Show thy art in honesty, and lose not thy virtue by the bad managery of it.
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1724, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop Burnet’s History of His Own Time, Volume I, Book II: The History of the Reign of King Charles II, p. 330, But they found […] , to their cost, that their unreasonable manag
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[…] if a Man has several Manageries upon his Hands, and the Books and Papers of them lie together, Confusion is apt to grow, not only among them but, in his Head […]
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