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Set free from slavery — anti-mum (anag)
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manumit
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in 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 .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. free from slavery or servitude [syn: emancipate ] [also: manumitting , manumitted ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. To release from slavery, to free.
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.