manage

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1. 1.To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle. Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed. Sir I. Newton. What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain. Prior.
2. 2.Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans. It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. Addison . It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant. Bp. Hurd.
3. 3.To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
4. 4.To treat with care; to husband. Dryden.
5. 5.To bring about; to contrive. Shak.
6. 6.To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer. Leave them to manage for thee. Dryden .

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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