Manhood

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MANHOOD. The ceremony of doing homage by the vassal to his lord was denominated homagium or manhood, by the feudists. The formula used was devenio vester homo, I become you Com. 54. See Homage.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Always he had been con- scious of the girl growing into womanhood as he grew into manhood. Once on a summer night when he was eighteen, he had walked with her on a coun- try road and in her presence had given way to an impulse to boast, to make himself appear big and significant in her eyes.

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I could only listen to the two sea-dogs, and show my manhood by drinking with them, fairly and squarely, drink and drink.

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The universal experience of ages, showing that children do grow imperceptibly from the cradle to manhood, did not exist for the countess.