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Manes

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Ma·nes  (mnz) also Ma·ni (män) a.d. 216?-276?
Persian prophet and founder of Manichaeism. His religious movement, a rival to early Christianity, professed that the world is a fusion of the equal but opposite forces of good and evil.
ma·nes or Ma·nes  (mnz, mäns)
pl.n.
1. The spirits of the dead, regarded as minor supernatural powers in ancient Roman religion.
2. (used with a sing. verb) The revered spirit of one who has died.
[Middle English, from Latin mns, perhaps from mnis, good; see m-1 in Indo-European roots.]
manes [ˈmɑːneɪz (Latin) ˈmɑːnɛs]
pl n (sometimes capital) (in Roman legend)
1. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) the spirits of the dead, often revered as minor deities
2. (Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) (functioning as singular) the shade of a dead person
[from Latin, probably: the good ones, from Old Latin mānus good]
Manes [ˈmeɪniːz]
n
(Biographies) See Mani
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Noun1.Manes - a Persian prophet who founded Manichaeism (216-276)


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The shape is the same with that of a beautiful horse, exact and nicely proportioned, of a bay colour, with a black tail, which in some provinces is long, in others very short: some have long manes hanging to the ground.
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Comparing the humped herds of whales with the humped herds of buffalo, which, not forty years ago, overspread by tens of thousands the prairies of Illinois and Missouri, and shook their iron manes and scowled with their thunder-clotted brows upon the sites of populous river-capitals, where now the polite broker sells you land at a dollar an inch; in such a comparison an irresistible argument would seem furnished, to show that the hunted whale cannot now escape speedy extinction.
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" I told him, "we had great numbers; that in summer they grazed in the fields, and in winter were kept in houses with hay and oats, where YAHOO servants were employed to rub their skins smooth, comb their manes, pick their feet, serve them with food, and make their beds.
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