different between manorial vs manurial

English

Adjective

manorial (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to a manor or to manorialism.

Derived terms

• manorial court
• manorial roll

Anagrams

• morainal

French

Adjective

manorial (feminine singular manoriale, masculine plural manoriaux, feminine plural manoriales)

1. manorial

English

Etymology

manure +? -ial

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /m?.?n??.i.?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m?.?nj???.?.?l/, /m?.?nj???.??l/

Adjective

manurial (comparative more manurial, superlative most manurial)

1. Of or pertaining to manure.
   • 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXVI, [1]

     I understood from Anscra that all the filth and refuse of the settlement—except a certain portion kept for manurial purposes, and sent to the plantation—was thrown into this torrent nightly and swept perhaps hundreds of miles away.

   • 1917, Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland

     Birds' dung has been held in high regard since time immemorial as a fertiliser, and the fact that this wonderful new manure was composed of birds' dung, and had a strong manurial smell, undoubtedly helped it to come rapidly into favour among farmers.

References

• manurial in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “manurial”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000