Crossword clues for manumit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Manumit \Man`u*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manumitted; p. pr. &
vb. n. Manumitting.] [L. manumittere, manumissum; manus the
hand + mittere to send, to send off. See Manual, and
Missile.]
To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or
servitude; to free, as a slave. ``Manumitted slaves.''
--Hume.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin manumittere "to release, set at liberty, emancipate," literally "to send from one's 'hand'" (i.e. "control"); see manumission. Related: Manumitted; manumitting.
Wiktionary
vb. To release from slavery, to free.
WordNet
v. free from slavery or servitude [syn: emancipate]
[also: manumitting, manumitted]
Usage examples of "manumit".
Our praetor-governor Nerva scurried off to Sicily and began to manumit the Italians, who number about a quarter of the total grain slaves.
We did manumit the slaves, for such is our law, but they labor here for us nonetheless, as you see.
But the German nations, and those descended from them, are not the only people who manumitted their bondmen, and yet they are the only people that established patrimonial jurisdictions.
In addition to this new law, and the consul's edict enforcing it, a resolution was passed by the senate ordering that whenever any one of them was manumitted and publicly declared to be free, the dictator, consul, interrex, censor or praetor for the time being should put the manumitter on his oath that he was not doing it for the purpose of altering his citizenship.