different between manubial vs manurial

English

Etymology

From Latin manubialis from manubiae (“money obtained from the sale of booty, plunder”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /m??nu.bi.?l/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /m??nju?.bi.?l/

Adjective

manubial (not comparable)

1. Taken as or relating to the spoils of war; funded from the spoils of war (especially in the Roman Empire).

   Synonyms: looted, plundered

   • 1824, T. Jeffery Llewelyn Prichard, “The Sevi-Lan-Gwy” in Welsh Minstrelsy, London: John and H. L. Hunt, p. 170,^[3]

     Ah where’s thy manubial glory of yore,

     The hall’s bright bedeckment of beauty?

   • 1825, James Elmes, General and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Fine Arts, London: Thomas Tegg, under the entry COLUMN,^[4]

     […] the manubial column was ornamented with trophies and spoils taken from the enemy;

   • 1862, Samuel Phillips Day, Down South; or, An Englishman’s Experience at the Seat of the American War, London: Hurst and Blackett, Volume 2, Chapter 2, p. 67,^[5]

     The luncheon formed a portion of the manubial stores left behind during the precipitate flight of Sunday, and consisted of preserved tripe—a very delicate dish, reader, I assure you.

   • 1982, Alan Wardman, Religion and Statecraft among the Romans, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, Chapter 4, p. 100,^[6]

     Perhaps a more significant change can be discerned in the financing of temples and such activities as celebratory games. In the great days of expansion these had been (very often) financed from conquest, they were manubial, derived from spoil or imported wealth.

   • 2006, Katherine E. Welch, “Art and Architecture in the Roman Republic ” in Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx (editors), A Companion to the Roman Republic, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, p. 502,

     […] the triumphal route […] was tightly packed with manubial temples, one directly upon the next, each permanently evoking a specific general’s victory.

References

Anagrams

• Balumain, albumina, bimanual

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