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Mansioun, -tioun, n. Also: -sioune, -sion(e, -cion(e. [ME. mansyon (a 1340), -sioun, -cion, -cyon (14–15th c.), 13th c. F. mansion, L. mansio, f. manēre to remain, dwell.]

1. The place where one stays or dwells, one's abode or dwelling-place.To kave, mak (one's) mansioun, to dwell, abide. 1490 Irland Mir. I. 7/34.
Princes … that … lauboris to knaw his will … for thar merit sall cum to his haly mansioune and glore eternall Id. Asl. MS. I. 64/2.
He that … laubouris … to distroye the hous and palace that he desyris for his mansioun perpetuale 1492 Myll Spect. 289/3.
The quene of Navarre duelt and had hyre mansioun within the toun of Parys Arundel MS. 281/73.
Be His grace He mot mak me His mancion 1567 G. Ball. 96.

b. In astrology: One of the zodiacal houses as the seat of a particular planet, or the sun or the moon. c1475 Wall. ix. 19.
The hot syng coloryk In to the Ram … He chosyn had his place and his mansioun 1530 Lynd. Test. Pap. 120.
For Mercurious … Exaultit wes in to the throne tryumphall Off his mantioun a1568 Bell. Bann. MS. 1/2.
Quhen goldin Phebus movit fra the ram In to the bull to mak his mansioun c1552 Lynd. Mon. 6120. c1590 Fowler I. 128/59.

2. A dwelling, a residence, a (more or less large or stately) house; the principal dwelling of an estate with its immediately attached land, a manor-house. = Maner n.², Maner place n., Mans(e n. 1. c1400 Troy-bk. ii. 2425.
One old mansioun That than for eld was fallyn dovn Ib. 2485. 1454 Southesk MSS. 8.
His mansione wes brynt 1455 Melville Chart. 40.
At Nudry his mansioun and duellyng place 1471 Acta Aud. 22/1.
For the wrangwis invasioune of the said Symoun at his propir mansioune with multitude of men of armys a1500 Henr. Test. Cress. 96.
[Cresseid] passit far out of the toun Ane myle or twa vnto ane mansioun Beildit full gay quhair hir father Calchas [etc.] 1491 Acta Conc. I. 190/2.
The landis of Blaksawling … with the mansioun of Blaksawling & four acris of land immediately liand to the said mansioun 1496 Ib. II. 34. 1498 Ib. 158.
Decernis hir qwyt of the thrid of the sade dowcot because it standis within the mansione of the sade manys of Lasingtoune Ib. 253. 1506 Lennox Mun. 179.
The sade mancione and chemis 1513 Doug. vii. iii. 25.
Hys first mansioun … With turettis, fowsy, and erd dikis ilk deill 1527 Prot. Bk. J. Foular II. 248.
The gevin of the said sesing baith of the sellar mansion and corshous 1528 Lynd. Dreme 325.
That myrke mansioun is tapessit with stynk 1534 Boyd Fam. P. No. 11 (17 Apr.).
My fourty schilling worth of land of the principale mansioun of Challochwerk 1542–3 Reg. Privy S. III. 10/2.
With the tour mansioun houssis and yardis thairof 1544 Misc. Bann. C. III. 422. 1545 Prot. Bk. W. Corbet (S.R.S.) 21.
[To the said kirklands] and … to the mansioun callit the kirk mansioun c1552 Lynd. Mon. 2965. 1554 Misc. Bann. C. III. 69. 1570 Canongate Ct. Bk. 245.
That greit mansioun land or bigging pertenand to Andro Chalmer and new biggit be him 1570 Reg. Privy S. VI. 178. 1572–3 Canongate Ct. Bk. 416. 1581–2 Crail B. Ct. 3 Feb.
Ane tenement of land or mantioun with chalmeris office housis … and haile byggynnis being thairupoun 1585 Bk. Carlaverock I. 265.
[They] brint the place, mantioun and haill hous thairof 1596 Dalr. I. 75/15. 1597 Misc. Spald. C. II. 140. 1608 Reg. Episc. Brechin II. 237.
To be reputit … ane hospitall and mansioun for the puir 1655 Bruces of Airth App. cxi. 1668 Kirkcudbr. Sheriff Ct. Deeds I. 226.
The principall mansion or dwelling hall of the saidis lands

b. An ecclesiastical residence. = Manse n. 2. 1597 Misc. Spald. C. II. 140.
Vestit and seasit … in … the mansioune, yaird and croft of the samin, … callit the mansioune and croft of the personage of Spyne, … betuix the mansiones of Duffus and Vnthank … at the eist, and the mansioune of the personage of Advey and Cromdale at the wast 1614 Cramond Ch. Aberdour 12.
The minister … had nocht as yet gotten entres to his mansioun