(n.) A dwelling house, generally with land attached.
(n.) The parsonage; a clergyman's house.
Example Sentences:
(1) Even if the prospect of David Cameron fighting the corner of once-loyal working-class Labour voters sounds absurd, that's what will surely define tomorrow night's debate: egged on by tomorrow morning's headlines (and get ready for a real peach from the Sun), the moneyed Old Etonian carpeting the son of the manse for his failure to understand the concerns of ordinary folk.
(2) Not for him Mr Osborne’s crowd-pleasing flourishes or Gordon Brown’s sermons from the manse.
(3) Like many a child of the manse he reacted against the puritanism of his childhood without abandoning its high-mindedness or sense of moral certainty.
(4) The manse – which still exhales an air of four-square Victorian respectability – occupies the high ground above the green spaces of Kelvingrove Park, in which, before the first world war, its son John Reith would walk, feeling the winds of destiny brushing his cheek as they blew down from the Campsie Fells – or so he said.
(5) Many years later, after I had got to know him as a constituent in the old manse of Makerstoun in the Borders, he told me that he had at various times been half-promised a peerage by both my predecessors as Liberal leader, Grimond and Jeremy Thorpe.
(6) (Emerson may have turned out to be an unforgiving landlord, but he had after all written the greatest of his essays, "Nature", in the attic-study of the manse.)
(7) A childhood in the rough hills of southern Scotland didn't help: there were manses, not vicarages, in the Borders, and a more outspoken democratic spirit against the feudal set-up that prevailed there.
(8) Last June, though, the basketball-playing "skinny kid" from Hawaii and the son of the manse got on surprisingly well.
(9) In perfectly bucolic and culturally congenial surroundings, Hawthorne's imagination took flight and his pen dashed over the page, producing 21 stories, many of which, including "Rappaccini's Daughter", would be collected in 1846 as Mosses from an Old Manse.
(10) Tennant was born David John McDonald and grew up with his brother and sister in a manse in Paisley, Scotland.
(11) The Scotland whose independence I seek is more a state of mind: cautious, communitarian, disliking of bullying or boasting, broadly egalitarian, valuing of education, internationalist in outlook, working class in character, conservative with a small c. It's a polity formed by the virtues of the manse.
(12) Sophia and Nathaniel moved to Concord, west of Boston, where they rented, from Ralph Waldo Emerson's family, the Old Manse, close by the river and the Old North Bridge where a bloody skirmish had taken place between British troops and local militia on April 19 1775, the revolution's baptism of fire.
(13) And, given that the virtues of the manse are not dissimilar to the virtues of the mosque, the gurdwara or the Women's Institute, it's a multicultural, shared, open polity.
(14) Doubles £80 (make your own breakfast) Plockton Gallery and Guesthouse, Plockton Plockton Gallery Checking into the Red Room or Blue Room of this lovely old manse in pretty little Plockton could end up costing you a fortune.
(15) Its Ludwig-like atmosphere is enhanced by the gilded steam barge by which one sails across to Ruskin’s retreat, ascending the banks to the manse.
(16) Alasdair Gray, writer "Self-rule for Scotland would make us grow up" David Greig, playwright "The Scotland whose independence I seek is more a state of mind: cautious, communitarian, disliking of bullying or boasting, broadly egalitarian, valuing of education, internationalist in outlook, working class in character, conservative with a small c. It's a polity formed by the virtues of the manse."
(17) The manse on Lynedoch Street, Glasgow, is a handsome double-fronted house with nine steps up to its front door.
(18) Few of Gordon Brown's friends and admirers would have predicted during his dominant decade as chancellor that his life's journey from the Presbyterian manse in Kirkcaldy to No 10 would end in such a painful exit.
Parsonage
Definition:
(n.) A certain portion of lands, tithes, and offerings, for the maintenance of the parson of a parish.
(n.) The glebe and house, or the house only, owned by a parish or ecclesiastical society, and appropriated to the maintenance or use of the incumbent or settled pastor.
(n.) Money paid for the support of a parson.
Example Sentences:
(1) This led to recognize the nosological relationships of these atypical cases with Parsonage-Turner's syndrome and to emphasize the similarities with Guillain-Barré syndrome.
(2) I decide to visit Saint Central - the parsonage museum at Haworth - to see if anything of the real Charlotte remains.
(3) Only five cases could be considered as definite Parsonage Turner's "shoulder girdle" syndrome.
(4) A recent proposal (Maggio, M. B., Pagan, J., Parsonage, D., Hatch, L., and Senior, A. E. (1987) J. Biol.
(5) The low Km for nitrate observed in the duriquinol assay is comparable with the apparent Km(NO-3) recently reported for intact cells of P. denitrificans [Parsonage, D., Greenfield, A. J.
(6) A 73-year-old women presented with a recurrent form of sporadic brachial plexus neuropathy, the so-called Parsonage and Turner syndrome.
(7) A previously healthy 38-year-old man presented a typical Parsonage-Turner syndrome (PTS) three weeks after a cold and unusual muscular exercise.
(8) Overall, the data give strong support to previously proposed mechanisms of unisite catalysis, steady-state catalysis, and energy coupling in F1-ATPases (Al-Shawi, M. K., Parsonage, D. and Senior, A. E. (1990) J. Biol.
(9) Recognising the implications of this, at the Church of England we have begun to put our own houses in order – churches, schools, halls and parsonages - through our Shrinking the Footprint campaign .
(10) She has been chained, weeping, to a radiator in the Haworth Parsonage, Yorkshire, for too long.
(11) The authors have analyzed the anamnestic, clinical and laboratory data in 44 patients with Parsonage-Turner syndrome.
(12) Comparison of the fluxes of enzyme-bound species detected experimentally in the presence of 2 mM phosphate with those predicted by computer simulation of published rate constants determined for uni-site catalysis (Al-Shawi, M.D., Parsonage, D. and Senior, A.E.
(13) The collection and assessment of more evidence is needed before Parsonage and Neuburger's proposition can be supported.
(14) This case report suggests that giant cell arteritis be considered in the investigation of the Parsonage and Turner syndrome.
(15) From 1971 to 1983 we observed 58 cases of the Parsonage-Turner syndrome.
(16) Pictures of the "Brontë waterfall" are gushing noisily over the front of the parsonage.
(17) Two typical cases of Parsonage-Turner syndrome with reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome and adhesive capsulitis of the shoulder are reported.
(18) Paralytic brachial neuritis or Parsonage-Turner syndrome principally involves the shoulder girdle, rarely muscles moving the hand and fingers.
(19) These effects are discussed in terms of a structural model of the catalytic nucleotide-binding domain of beta-subunit proposed recently (Duncan, T.M., Parsonage, D., and Senior, A.E.
(20) I’d encourage people to visit Haworth and the Brontë Parsonage Museum , which was the lifelong family home of the Brontës.