mansion

noun

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English mansioun, borrowed from Anglo-Norman mansion, mansiun, from Latin mānsiō (“dwelling, stopping-place”), from the past participle stem of manēre (“stay”). By surface analysis, manse + -ion.

1. A large luxurious house or building, usually built for the wealthy.
2. A luxurious flat (apartment).
3. An apartment building.
4. A house provided for a clergyman; a manse.
5. A stopping-place during a journey; a stage.

   “According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.”

6. An astrological house; a station of the moon.
7. One of twenty-eight sections of the sky.
8. An individual habitation or apartment within a large house or group of buildings. (Now chiefly in allusion to John 14:2.)

   “In my Father's house are many mansions [translating μοναὶ (monaì)]: if it were not so, I would have told you.”

   “These poets near our princes sleep, / And in one grave their mansion keep.”

9. Any of the branches of the Rastafari movement.