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mansion

mansion is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep. Den 2. The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
  2. 2.(Astrol.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8. Chaucer.
  3. 3.The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution. [Obs.] The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon. Chaucer. Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. Blackstone.
  4. 4.To dwell; to reside. [Obs.] Mede.

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

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