Manage \Man"age\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Managed; p. pr. & vb. n. Managing.]

[From Manage, n.]

1. To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed. --Sir I. Newton.

What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain. --Prior.

2. Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects. --Addison.

It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant. --Bp. Hurd.

3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

4. To treat with care; to husband. --Dryden.

5. To bring about; to contrive. --Shak.

Syn: To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert; conduct; transact.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)