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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Manage \Man"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Managed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Managing}.] [From {Manage}, n.]
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. 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. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in
graceful or artful action
4. To treat with care to husband. --Dryden.
5. To bring about to contrive. --Shak.
Syn: To direct; govern; control; wield; order contrive;
concert; conduct; transact.
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