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Specifically: (a) Customary method of acting;
habit.

Paul, as his manner was, went in unto
them.

Acts xvii. 2.

Air and manner are more expressive than
words.

Richardson.

(b) pl. Carriage; behavior;
deportment; also, becoming behavior; well-bred carriage and
address.

Good manners are made up of petty
sacrifices.

Emerson.

(c) The style of writing or thought of an
author; characteristic peculiarity of an artist.

3. Certain degree or measure; as, it is in a
manner done already.

The bread is in a manner common.

1 Sam. xxi.5.

4. Sort; kind; style; -- in this application
sometimes having the sense of a plural, sorts or kinds.

Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of
herbs.

Luke xi. 42.

I bid thee say,

What manner of man art thou?

Coleridge.

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