MA’NAGER, n.s. [from manage]
1. One who has the conduct or direction of any thing.
A skillful manager of the public, so long as they have
ears but to hear, needs never enquire whether they have any understanding.
SOUTH’S SERMONS.
The manager opens his sluice every night, and distributes
the water into the town. ADDISON.
An artful manager, that crept between His friend and
shame, and was a kind of screen. POPE.
2. A man of frugality; a good husband.
A prince of great inspiring thoughts in the main, a
manager of his treasure, from his own nature, wherever he discerns merit.
TEMPLE’S MISCELLANY.
The most severe censor cannot but be pleased with the
prodigality of Ovid’s wit; though he could have wished, that the master of it
could have been a better manager. DRYDEN.
Source: Dr Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language
(1755)[1]
[1] Samuel
Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language: An Anthology, ed., David
Crystal (London: Penguin Classics, 2006), p. 364.
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