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with the manner

prep_phrase

Etymology

Corruption of "with the mainer", from French main (“hand”).

  1. borrowed from main

Definitions

  1. in the very act

    in the very act; red-handed.

    • O villain, thou stolest a cup of sack eighteen years ago, and wert taken with the manner, and ever since thou hast blush'd extempore.
    • Replevy any Man imprisoned for the Forest, being taken with the Manner, or lndicted: But this Statute reaches not to that of de Homine Repligiando, directed Castodi Forestae.
    • And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA