- From Managen.
- 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.What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain.
- 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.It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant.
- To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.
- To treat with care; to husband.
- To bring about; to contrive.To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact.
