MAN'AGEMENT, noun Conduct; administration; manner of treating, directing or carrying on; as the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs. 2. Cunning practice; conduct directed by art, design or prudence; contrivance. Mark with what management their tribes divide. 3. Practice; transaction; dealing. He had great management with ecclesiastics, in the view to be advanced to the pontificate. 4. Modulation; variation. All directions as to the management of the voice, must be regarded as subsidiary to the expression of feeling.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI