Mān'age-ry, n.

noun

n. [O. Fr. ménagerie, messagerie. See supra.] [Obs.]

Sense 1. Management; conduct; direction; administration.

Sense 2. Husbandry; economy; frugality.

Their unseasonable management, in that particular, drew upon them an expense of many millions. Burnet.

Sense 3. Moral conduct.

The fruits of whose doctrine and menagery amount, at best, only to empty forms of godliness. Barrow.